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New Methodological Perspectives in Islamic Studies
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This volume draws attention to and moves beyond the traditional methodological frames that have governed knowledge production in the academic study of Islam. Departing from Orientalist and largely textual studies, the chapters collected herein revolve around three main themes: gender, the political, and what has come to be known as "lived Islam." The first involves ascertaining how to read gender and gender issues into traditional sources. The second encourages an attunement to the often delicate intersection between the spheres of religion and politics. The final provides a corrective to our traditional over-emphasis on the interpretation of texts and a preoccupation with studying (mainly male) elites. Taken as a whole, this volume encourages a multi-methodological approach to the study of Islam.
Contributors include Abbas Aghdassi, Aaron W. Hughes, Eva Kepplinger, Taira Amin, Betül Avcı, Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat, Meral Durmuş and Bahattin Akşit, Walid Ghali, Isabella Crespi and Martina Crescenti, Brian Arly Jacobsen, Pernille Friis Jensen, Kirstine Sinclair, and Niels Valdemar Vinding, Magdalena Pycińska, Zahraa McDonald, Emin Poljarevic, Abdessamad Belhaj.
Contributors include Abbas Aghdassi, Aaron W. Hughes, Eva Kepplinger, Taira Amin, Betül Avcı, Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat, Meral Durmuş and Bahattin Akşit, Walid Ghali, Isabella Crespi and Martina Crescenti, Brian Arly Jacobsen, Pernille Friis Jensen, Kirstine Sinclair, and Niels Valdemar Vinding, Magdalena Pycińska, Zahraa McDonald, Emin Poljarevic, Abdessamad Belhaj.
Abbas Aghdassi, (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor of History and Civilization of Muslims Societies at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. He has published on Muslim minorities, methods in Islamic studies, and academic Persian, including Perspectives on Academic Persian (Springer, 2021).
Aaron W. Hughes, Ph.D. (2000), is the Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester. He is the author of numerous books, edited collections and articles on Islam, Judaism, and theory and method in the study of religion.
Aaron W. Hughes, Ph.D. (2000), is the Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester. He is the author of numerous books, edited collections and articles on Islam, Judaism, and theory and method in the study of religion.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Note on Transliteration
1 Introduction: Moving Beyond
Aaron W. Hughes and Abbas Aghdassi
2 “Islam and…” Thinking about Islam through the Act of Comparison
Aaron W. Hughes
3 Toward a “Hermeneutics of Trust” in the Current Discussion on a Gender-Just Interpretation of Islamic Primary Texts
Eva Kepplinger
4 The Discursive Construction of Women’s Guile in the Muslim Exegetical Tradition
Taira Amin
5 Contemporary Turkish Academic Approach to Christianity
The Case of the New Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam (DİA)
Betül Avcı
6 New Methods for Understanding Political Islam
Tradition-Constituted Rationality and the Theory of the Spirit of Meaning in the Work of Naʾini
Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat
7 Recontextualizing Islam in the Social and Collective Memory
Tracing the Sociogenesis of Martyrdom in Türkiye
Meral Durmuş and Bahattin Akşit
8 Old, New or Digital Philology
Working towards an Amalgamated Work Frame
Walid Ghali
9 New Lenses for an Ethnography of Islam
The Case of Mevlid Ceremonies
Isabella Crespi and Martina Crescenti
10 Lived Institutions in the Study of Islam
Brian Arly Jacobsen, Pernille Friis Jensen, Kirstine Sinclair and Niels Valdemar Vinding
11 Everyday Islam
Moving beyond the Piety and Orthodoxy Divide
Magdalena Pycińska
12 Moving from a Madrasa Situation to the Process of Doctrinal Development
An Explication of the Extended Case Method in the Study of Islam
Zahraa McDonald
13 A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Lived Islam and Muslimness
Emin Poljarevic
14 Back to Critique
Islamic Studies and the Vicious Hermeneutic Circle
Abdessamad Belhaj
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Note on Transliteration
1 Introduction: Moving Beyond
Aaron W. Hughes and Abbas Aghdassi
2 “Islam and…” Thinking about Islam through the Act of Comparison
Aaron W. Hughes
Part 1: Gender
3 Toward a “Hermeneutics of Trust” in the Current Discussion on a Gender-Just Interpretation of Islamic Primary Texts
Eva Kepplinger
4 The Discursive Construction of Women’s Guile in the Muslim Exegetical Tradition
Taira Amin
Part 2: The Political
5 Contemporary Turkish Academic Approach to Christianity
The Case of the New Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam (DİA)
Betül Avcı
6 New Methods for Understanding Political Islam
Tradition-Constituted Rationality and the Theory of the Spirit of Meaning in the Work of Naʾini
Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat
7 Recontextualizing Islam in the Social and Collective Memory
Tracing the Sociogenesis of Martyrdom in Türkiye
Meral Durmuş and Bahattin Akşit
Part 3: Lived Islams
8 Old, New or Digital Philology
Working towards an Amalgamated Work Frame
Walid Ghali
9 New Lenses for an Ethnography of Islam
The Case of Mevlid Ceremonies
Isabella Crespi and Martina Crescenti
10 Lived Institutions in the Study of Islam
Brian Arly Jacobsen, Pernille Friis Jensen, Kirstine Sinclair and Niels Valdemar Vinding
11 Everyday Islam
Moving beyond the Piety and Orthodoxy Divide
Magdalena Pycińska
12 Moving from a Madrasa Situation to the Process of Doctrinal Development
An Explication of the Extended Case Method in the Study of Islam
Zahraa McDonald
13 A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Lived Islam and Muslimness
Emin Poljarevic
14 Back to Critique
Islamic Studies and the Vicious Hermeneutic Circle
Abdessamad Belhaj
Index
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