Islam in World Cultures:Comparative Perspectives

400 Pages·2004·18.288 MB·English

by  R. MICHAEL FEENER

Islam in
World Cultures

Islam in
World Cultures
Comparative Perspectives
Edited by
R. MICHAEL FEENER
Santa Barbara, California Denver, Colorado Oxford, England
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Islam in world cultures : comparative perspectives /
R. Michael Feener, editor.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Islam—21st century. 2. Islam and civil society.
3. Islam and state—Islamic countries. 4. Islamic countries—Civilization—21st century.
I. Feener, R. Michael.
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Contents
C o n t r i bu to r s,ix
Islam in World Cultures
Comparative Perspectives
Chapter One
Islam: Histo r i cal Introduction and Overv i e w
R. Michael Feener, 1
Chapter Two
Islam after Empire: Turkey and the Arab Middle East
Gregory Starrett, 41
Chapter Three
Shi’ite Islam in Contemporary Iran:
F rom Islamic Revolution to Moderating Reform
David Buchman, 75
Chapter Four
D e bating Ort h o d ox y, Contesting Tr a d i t i o n :
Islam in Contemporary South Asia
Robert Rozehnal, 103
Chapter Five
Islam in Contemporary Central Asia
Adeeb Khalid, 133
Chapter Six
Islam in China: Accommodation or Sepa r at i s m ?
Dru C. Gladney, 161
v i i
v i i i C o n t e n t s
Chapter Seven
Muslim Thought and Practice in Contemporary Indonesia
Anna Gade and R. Michael Feener, 183
Chapter Eight
Religion, Language, and Nationalism: Harari Muslims in
Christian Ethiopia
Tim Carmichael, 217
Chapter Nine
R ace, Ideology, and Islam in Contemporary South Africa
Abdulkader Tayob, 253
Chapter Ten
Peril and Possibility: Muslim Life in the United Stat e s
Edward E. Curtis IV, 283
Chapter Eleven
Suggestions for Further Reading
and Internet Resourc e s, 309
Chapter Twelve
Key Te r m s, 337
I n d e x, 361
Contributors
David Buchman is a cultural anthropologist who has traveled throughout
the Middle East pursuing the study of Arabic, Persian, Islam, and the status
of contemporary Sufism. He is an assistant professor of anthropology and
Middle East studies at Hanover College in Indiana, and his publications
include a translation of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s (d. 1111) work Mishkat al-
Anwar (Niche of the Lights, 1999).
Tim Carm i c h a e l teaches African History at the College of Charleston
(South Carolina). He is online editor of H-Africa, associate editor of North-
east African Studies,and coeditor of Personality and Political Culture in Modern
A f r i c a (1998). His publications focus on Islam, politics, and culture in
Ethiopia, Kenya, and Yemen.
Edward E. Curtis IVis assistant professor of religious studies at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and author of Islam in Black America
(2002). He offers courses in both Islamic studies and African American re-
ligions and is currently at work on a history of religious life in Elijah
M u h a m m a d ’s Nation of Islam. He holds a doctorate in religious studies
from the University of South Africa.
R. Michael Feener teaches religious studies and Southeast Asian studies at
the University of California, Riverside. His research covers aspects of Islam
in Southeast Asia and the Middle East from the early modern to the con-
t e m p o r a ry periods. He has published articles on topics ranging from
Qur’anic exegesis to Sufi hagiography, and he is currently completing work
on a monograph tracing the development of Muslim legal thought in twen-
tieth-century Indonesia.
Anna M. Gade is assistant professor of religion at Oberlin College. She spe-
cializes in Islamic traditions and religious systems of Southeast Asia and is
the author of P e rfection Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and the Recited
Qur’an in Indonesia(2004).
Dru C. Gladney is professor of Asian studies and anthropology at the Uni-
versity of Hawai‘i at Manoa. His books include Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Na-
tionalism in the People’s Republic (1991); Making Majorities: Composing the Na-
tion in Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the U.S. (1998); Ethnic
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