Ethnographies of Islam: Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices (Exploring Muslim Contexts) (Exploring Muslim Contexts Eup) - Hardcover

Baudouin Dupret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748645500 ISBN 13: 9780748645503

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This comparative approach to the various uses of the ethnographic method in research about Islam in anthropology and other social sciences is particularly relevant in the current climate. Political discourses and stereotypical media portrayals of Islam as a monolithic civilisation have prevented the emergence of cultural pluralism and individual freedom. Such discourses are countered by the contributors who show the diversity and plurality of Muslim societies and promote a reflection on how the ethnographic method allows the description, representation and analysis of the social and cultural complexity of Muslim societies in the discourse of anthropology. *Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations*

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Review:

"A collective volume of rare intellectual and methodological coherence... This is a landmark volume that marks the coming of age for the study of Islam through ethnography." --Nile Green, Anthropos

About the Author:

Baudouin Dupret is is Directeur de Recherche at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Director of the Centre Jacques-Berque in Rabat, Morocco. He is also lecturer in Islamic law at the universities of Louvain and Strasbourg. He has edited numerous volumes, including 'Narratives of Truth in Islamic Law' (Saqi books, 2008), and is the author of several books, such as 'Practices of Truth' (Benjamins: 2011) and 'Adjudication in Action: An Ethnomethodology of Law, Morality and Justice' (Ashgate: 2011). Dr Thomas Pierret is Lecturer in Contemporary Islam in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of 'Baas et Islam en Syrie. La dynastie Assad face aux oulemas' (Paris: PUF, 2011). Dr Paulo G. Pinto is Professor of Anthropology at Universidade Federal Fluminense and director of the Center for Middle East Studies in Brazil. He is the author of 'Arabes no Rio de Janeiro: Uma Identidade Plural' (Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Cidade Viva, 2010) and 'Isla: Religiao e Civilizacao, Uma Abordagem Antropologica' (Aparecida: Ed. Santuario, 2010). Dr Kathryn Spellman Poots is Associate Professor at the Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations. She is the author of 'Religion and Nation: Iranian Local and Transnational Networks in Britain' (Berghahn Publishers: Oxford and New York, 2005).

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0748645500
• ISBN 13: 9780748645503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Thomas Pierret, Paulo G. Pinto, Kathryn Spellman-Poots