To what extent can Islam be localized in an increasingly interconnected world? The contributions to this volume investigate different facets of Muslim lives in the context of increasingly dense ...transregional connections, highlighting how the circulation of ideas about 'Muslimness' contributed to the shaping of specific ideas about what constitutes Islam and its role in society and politics. Infrastructural changes have prompted the intensification of scholarly and trade networks, prompted the circulation of new literary genres or shaped stereotypical images of Muslims. This, in turn, had consequences in widely differing fields such as self-representation and governance of Muslims. The contributions in this volume explore this issue in geographical contexts ranging from South Asia to Europe and the US. Coming from the disciplines of history, anthropology, religious studies, literary studies and political science, the authors collectively demonstrate the need to combine a translocal perspective with very specific local and historical constellations. The book complicates conventional academic divisions and invites to think in historically specific translocal contexts.
This volume explores what ‘Islam’ is taken to mean in different social, economic and cultural contexts. It considers how people engage and employ varying traditions, institutions, and media in ...shaping their sense of self and place. It also investigates how competing notions of ‘Islam’ intersect with questions of governance. The book complicates neat conventional divisions and invites to think across disciplines and in translocal contexts.
Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds Daǧyeli, Jeanine; Freitag, Ulrike; Ghrawi, Claudia
Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds,
2021, Letnik:
40
eBook, Book Chapter
In this chapter, I will discuss the different forms of violence that occurred in the course of labour protests in Saudi Arabian oil towns between 1953 and 1956. My focus lies on the three towns of ...Dhahran, Ras Tanura and Abqaiq, as they shared the common character of being newly built industrial towns whose purposes were the housing of the industrial labour force and the administration of the local oil industry. The three places materialized when oil production in Saudi Arabia’s province of al-Hasa¹ first reached commercial quantities in 1938. With the end of World War II, Saudis from more
Introduction CLAUDIA GHRAWI; FATEMEH MASJEDI; NELIDA FUCCARO ...
Urban Violence in the Middle East,
03/2015
Book Chapter
This book was conceived in mid-2010 as a response to a perceived gap in scholarly reflections on different forms and expressions of urban violence in the history of the Middle East from the late ...eighteenth until the mid-twentieth century. While urban violence has recently become a vibrant field of study in other regions, and has increasingly been understood as an extreme but not exceptional expression of political and social contention, we felt that scholarship on the Middle East differed. There, urban violence was often seen as a sign of the violent nature of the region’s societies or as an expression
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