Knowledge, Authority and Change in Islamic Societies: Studies in Honor of Dale F. Eickelman

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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Dale Eickelman on Knowledge, Authority and Change
	1 Knowledge
	2 Authority
	3 Change
	References
Part 1 Knowledge
	Chapter 1 An Anthropologist’s “Day in (Rabbinical) Court” in Late Ottoman Tripoli
		1 Hacohen and the Beit Din in Tripoli
		2 The Second Life of Higgid Mordecai
		References
	Chapter 2 Islamic Education in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century India
		1 Practices, Institutions, Traditions
		2 The Transregional and the Local
		3 Rival Traditions: Competition and Confluence
		References
	Chapter 3 Interpretive Anthropology and Islam in Morocco: A Comparison between Geertz and Eickelman
		1 The Theoretical Framework: The Weberian Theory on the Interaction between Cultural Systems and Religious Beliefs
		2 Connecting Historical and Social Structure
		3 Islam in Morocco according to Geertz and Eickelman
		4 Geertz and Eickelman: Areas of Similarity and Difference
			4.1 Areas of Similarity: Methodology and General Conclusions
			4.2 Areas of Difference: Writing Style and Categorization
		References
	Chapter 4 Out of Sight in Morocco, or How to See the Jinn in the Modern-day Museum
		1 How to See in Museums
		2 Islamic Visuality
		3 Islamic Visuality and the World of the Unseen
		4 Dis/appearing Jinn
		5 Glass Boxes
		6 Linear Perspective
		7 Bigger Boxes
		8 Conclusion
		References
Part 2 Authority
	Chapter 5 Rethinking New Media in the Public Sphere: Beyond the Freedom Paradox
		1 The Problem with Internet Media
		2 How the Internet Is Interactive
		3 The Social Life of Information
		4 Intermediate Conclusions: How Do New Media Expand the Public Sphere?
		References
	Chapter 6 New Moroccan Publics: Prisons, Cemeteries and Human Remains
		1 The Photograph and the Prison Cell of Islamist Political Detainees5
		2 The Cemetery Eulogy and Public Oral Testimony
		3 Tales of Cheikh El-Arab
		4 The Gravestone Project for Human Remains
		5 The Return of Cheikh El-Arab’s Body
		References
	Chapter 7 Rethinking Knowledge and Power Hierarchy in the Muslim World
		1 Ethnography of Knowledge
		2 The Power of Education and the Transformation of the Hierarchy of Power
		3 The Power of Technology and New Media
		4 Travel, Migration and Globalization
		5 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8 Salafism as a Contested Concept
		1 Essentially Contested Concepts and the Study of Islam
		2 The Contested Origin of Salafism
		3 Defining Salafism as a Mode of Scriptural Engagement
			3.1 Foundations of the Salafi Creed
			3.2 Salafis in the Domain of Law
			3.3 Salafis and Political Engagement: Quietist and Activist Branches
		4 Conclusion
		References
Part 3 Change
	Chapter 9 Religiosity, Men of Learning, and Oil Wealth in the Land of the Imamate
		1 Religious Tradition and Religious Objectification
		2 Being Good, Being Ibadi
		3 Oil Wealth and Development Futures
		4 Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 10 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Turkish
		1 Islam as Bureaucracy and Embodied Practice
		2 Islam as Race
		3 Public Muslims
		4 Islamicized Politics
		5 Cosmopolitanism, Commercialism and the Islamic Individual
		6 Who Is a Good Muslim?
		7 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 11 The Radicalization of Islam in Germany
		1 French and German Jihadism in Contrast
		2 Jihadism in Germany
		3 The Denial of the Jihadist Phenomenon in Europe
		4 Conclusion: Jihadism, European Politics, and the Rising Far Right
		References
	Chapter 12 Madrasas Promoting Social Harmony? Debates over the Role of Madrasa Education in Pakistan
		1 Role of Madrasas
			1.1 Mass Education
			1.2 Basic Education in Pakistan
			1.3 Madrasa Education in Pakistan
			1.4 Organization of Deeni Madrasas in Pakistan
			1.5 Curriculum Reform
		2 The Religious Mindset
		3 Conclusion
		Appendix
			Summary of the Report: Curriculum and Activities (Pak Institute for Peace Studies 2018)
		References
Dale F. Eickelman’s Publications
Index