TY  - BOOK
TI  - What is Islamic studies?: European and North American approaches to a contested field
SN  - 9781399500029
AV  - BP43.E85 W43 2022
U1  - 297.07104 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Islam
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Europe
KW  - North America
KW  - Étude et enseignement
KW  - Amérique du Nord
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction. What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field --; Chapter 1. There is No Data for Islam: Testing the Utility of a Category --; Chapter 2. Critics as Caretakers, Religion as Critique --; Chapter 3. Talal Asad and the Question of Islamic Secularities --; Chapter 4. Territory at Stake! In Defence of 'Religion' and 'Islam' --; Chapter 5. Power Practices and Pop: The Islam of Zain Bhikha --; Chapter 6. Islam in the Making: History, Discourses, the Quran and Modern Science --; Chapter 7. Paradigms of Religion and the Swift Birth of Islam: Wilfred Cantwell Smith Revisited --; Chapter 8. Prospects for a New Idiom for Islamic History --; Chapter 9. Constructing Islamic Studies: Gender, Power and Critique as Ethical Tools --; About the Contributors --; Index
N2  - Featuring contributions from anthropologists, historians and scholars of religion, this book explores the passionate, divided and evolving field of Islamic Studies in Europe and North America, past and present - covering topics from secularism and gender to pop music and modern science
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