Conceptualizing Islam : Current Approaches (Hardcover)

Introduction? Part 1: Studying Islam and the 'Western' Order of Things? 1.?Historicising Colonial Islam: Religion and Law in German East Africa? 2.?A Dynamic Triangle: Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Marshall G.S. Hodgson, and Toshihiko Izutsu’s Conceptualization of Islam? 3.?Who invented Buddhism? Or: what was Buddhism before it was called Buddhism?? 4.?Hinduism, San?tana Dharma, and the Global Struggle about “True Religion”? 5.?Framing Islam as Conceptual History? 6.?Decolonising ‘Islam’? 7.?Muslim Publics between Discourses of Religion and Islam? Part 2: Entangels Sites of Negotiation? 8.?Conceptualising “Islam in Europe”: A Postcolonial Approach? 9.?Beyond the Emic-Etic Distinction: Conceptualizing Islam in Our Inter-Connected World? 10.?Is “progressive Islam” still “Islamic”? Examining the question through the lens of Shahab Ahmed’s approach to conceptualising Islam? 11.?Religion and/or Culture? The Trouble with Conceptualizing Islam in Europe? Part 3: Hegemonies and Peripheries? 12.?Conceptualizing Muslim “Sectarianism"? 13.?Genealogies of Islam Noir: Racializing Islam 14.?Conceptualizing in the Medieval Indian Ocean World? Part 4: Conceptual Approaches in Research Practice? 15. God, Islam, and Anthropology? 16.?What Does Discourse Theory Contribute? Capturing Muslim Perspectives on Inheritance Law in Switzerland? 17.?Global and Vernacular Patterns of Islamic Orthodoxy: A Discursive Perspective? 18. Charisma, Embodiment and Continuous Revelation: Broadening the Concept of Islam? 19.?The Discursive Tradition Framework: New Directions for the Study of Islam After 'The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam' (1986)