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Ways of knowing Muslim cultures and societies : studies in honour of Gudrun Kramer / edited by Bettina Graf, Birgit Krawietz, Schirin Amir-Moazami.

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This volume showcases a variety of innovative approaches to the study of Muslim societies and cultures, inspired by and honouring Gudrun Krämer and her role in transforming the landscape of Islamic Studies. With contributions from scholars from around the world, the articles cover an extraordinarily...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Gräf, Bettina (Editor), Krawietz, Birgit (Editor), Amir-Moazami, Schirin (Editor), Krämer, Gudrun (honouree.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.
Series:Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; v. 122.
Subjects:
Islamic countries > History.
Islamic countries > Civilization.
Islamic countries > Social conditions.
Islamic countries > Study and teaching.
Muslims.
Social conditions.
Education.
Civilization.
Islamic civilization.
Islamic countries.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Islamic studies inside out
  • Between Europe and Asia : Arabic and Islamic studies in imperial Russia / Alexander Knysh
  • Kairo 1869 : eine historische Collage / Reinhard Schulze
  • Empires, corporations, and nations
  • Muhammad Rashid Rida's reformist project to establish a true Caliphate : prospects and challenges / Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk
  • Ottoman corporatism, eighteenth to twentieth centuries : beyond the state-society paradigm in Middle Eastern history / Johann Bussow and Astrid Meier
  • Family portraits : visual sources for a social history of the late Ottoman Empire / Elke Hartmann
  • The position of philosophy in the Late Ottoman educational reforms / M. Sait Ozervail
  • Islam, ethics and languages
  • Pratique religieuse et comportement moral / Abdou Filali-Ansary
  • The emerging field of ethics in the context of modern Egypt / Mutaz al-Khatib
  • Religion as discourse : conversion and commitment to Jihad in South Africa / Abdulkader Tayob
  • Media perspectives and material approaches
  • From the pocketbook to Facebook : Maktabat Wahba, publishing, and political ideas in Cairo since the 1940s / Bettina Graf
  • Reading between the lines : Arabic script, Islamic calligraphy, and the question of legibility / Alina Kokoschka
  • Dimensions of "giving voice" : discursive agency and intellectual practice on Swahili Islamic radio, in Mombasa 2005-2006 / Kai Kresse
  • Shah Wali Allah of Delhi, his successors, and the Qur'an / Muhammad Qasim Zaman
  • The politics of body and gender
  • #ItsMensTurn : of hashtags and Shi'i discourses in Iran / Katajun Amirpur
  • Contested genderscapes : Islamic languages of women's rights in the Arab region / Bettina Dennerlein
  • On coming to grips with Turkish oil wrestling : conceptualising muscular Islam and Islamic martial arts / Birgit Krawietz
  • Dominant minorities and dominant majorities
  • Domination, resilience, and power : religious minorities in the imperial and post-imperial Middle East / Hamit Bozarslan
  • Carving out a space for equal political citizenship? Muslim politics of remembrance in Uganda / Dorothea Schulz
  • Arab revolutions and their impact on research about the Middle East
  • Understanding transformation, elite change, and new social mobilisation in the Arab world : an actor-centred and policy-oriented research project / Muriel Asseburg
  • Understanding politics in Egypt "from below" / Cilja Harders
  • Muslims inside out
  • Recognition and Its traps in liberal secular conditions : the case of Muslims in Europe / Schirin Amir-Moazami
  • The refugee and the dog / Ruth Mas.

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