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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Anthropology of Islam"”.
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A mosque without a community?: Muslim lives in multicultural Japan
… numerous opportunities for upward social, professional, and economic mobility. But what do those opportunities look like? Research on migrants in Japan often focuses on issues of "race" and culture, yet the role of religion is comparatively less well understood. What does it mean to be a …
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Following Sayyida Zaynab: Twelver Shi‘ism in Contemporary Syria
Outsiders, such as Lebanese and Syrian Shi‘is often refer to Twelver Shi‘is in the Syrian shrine-town as ‘traditional,’ and even ‘backward.’ They are not the only ones. Both Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah ‘Ali Khamenei have called the bloody flagellation practices, which have only increased in …
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An ethics of coherence: self, knowledge, and religious authority among women Islamic scholars in Leicester, UK
… female religious scholars (‘alimat sing. ‘alima) of Gujarati-Indian origin in the British Midlands city of Leicester. It investigates their efforts to live a good Muslim life and to guide others in doing so. These women studied a multi-year Islamic syllabus at local Deobandi seminaries for women …
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Producing an Islamic institution: a London case study
This thesis constitutes a case study of how an Islamic institution in London is produced as an object of knowledge. It develops an argument by Maussen about mosques in Western Europe, which suggests that they ‘do not have a self-evident, clear and constant meaning’. On the basis of a literature …