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. Brewer: Ethnography
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. Discourse and Social Change
. Documentary Analysis
. Edmund Husserl
. Empire
. Esack on the Qur'an
. Paul Feyerabend
. Foucault
. Genealogies of the Modern
. Erving Goffman
. Governing the Soul of the Rose
. Governmentality
. Islamophobia
. 'ilm al-tarikh: Introduction
. Lord Macaulay
. Minority Rights
. Muhammad: notes
. Muslim Chronology
. Muslim Boys and Education
. Networks
. Narrative Paradigms
. Narrative Psychology
. Overcoming Tradition and- Modernity
. The Panopticon
. Pnina, Queen of the- Transnationalism
. Progressive Muslim Declaration
. Religion and Culture
. Reporting islam
. Rights of the Child
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ISIM REVIEW
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Autumn 2007: Conflict and Development
* Still
Quarrelling over the Quran
(Asma Barlas)
* Interview
Soroush
* Islamophonic
19/ Spring 2007:
Connections
* Hidden Features
of the Face Veil Controversy
18/ Autumn 2006: Shades of Islam
17/ Spring 2006: Popular Piety
16/ Autumn 2005: Youth
15/ Spring 2005
* Transnational Islam in Western Europe, R. Grillo & B. F. Soares
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“Pilgrims of Love”: Sufism in a Global World, Pnina Werbner
14/ June 2004
* A Culture of Righteousness and Martyrdom, Elliott Colla
* Human Rights, Women and Islam, Shirin Ebadi
13/ December 2003
* What is Progressive Islam? Omid Safi
* (Inter)textuality: Interactive Cultural Practices, Nasr Abu Zayd
12/ June 2003
(Charles Kurzman)
11/ December 2002
(Aki Nawaz)
10/ July 2002
(Shazia Mirza)
EXTERNAL LINKS
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The Ulema in Contemporary Islam
Zaman, M. Q. (2002) The Ulama in Contemporary Islam:
Custodians of Change (Princeton University Press)
Book draws on notions of (discursive) tradition developed by MacIntyre and
subsequently Asad, with the 'ulema defined by "a certain sense of continuity"
with a discursive tradition which "...constitutes the most significant
difference between them and their modernist and Islamist detractors." Importance
of studying ulema relates to "...the ways in which they have mobilized this
tradition to define issues of religious identity and authority in the public
sphere and to articulate changing roles for themselves in contemporary Muslim
politics." (p.10)
All About Ethnography
Brewer. John D. (2000) Ethnography (Buckingham:
Open University Press)
Once upon a time, not so long ago, when flophouses were
flophouses and Inuit were Eskimos, we had social scientific method. Sociologists
read books in order to learn how to be sociologists and then simply got on with
the job, sometimes badly. Now we have social science methodology, which is where
you establish the epistemological and ontological arguments which underpin your
method. Well, I already have mine, so the notes herein just briefly cover the
basics of the disputes surrounding ethnography and some of the practical
guidelines that have emerged in response to its postmodern critics as well as
outlining some of the key features of the ethnographic process and relevant
terminology.
Discourse and Social Change
Fairclough, N. (1992) Discourse and Social Change
(Cambridge: Polity)
Fairclough begins by describing a number of approaches
to discourse analysis as a contextual prelude to his own, which combine close
textual and social analysis. He divided these approaches into two groups, based
on their social orientation. The first group he calls ‘non-critical approaches’,
which include the analysis of classroom discourse by Sinclair and Coulthard
(1975), ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (CA), the therapeutic
discourse analysis of Labov and Fanshel (1977) and the discursive psychology of
Potter and Wetherell (1987). Notes only as far as page 60 after decision taken
to work from Fairclough, N. (2003) Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for
Social Research (London: Routledge) instead.
Reporting Islam
Poole. E. (2002) Reporting Islam: Media Representations
of British Muslims (London: I B Taurus)
A comprehensive media analysis, with a political
science orientation, but drawing on cultural studies theorists such as Stuart
Hall and Ziauddin Sardar (1999). Analysis draws primarily on mainstream printed
news media in the mid-1900s in the UK, but doesn't cover all papers. Methods used include
quantitative content analysis, discourse analysis and focus groups.
Provides an account of "current and dominant meanings circulating in British
society around one of its minority groups." (p.27) The analysis takes into
account related analytical frameworks, including race, religion and the
institutions of news production...
Postmodern Ethics
Bauman, Z (1993) Postmodern Ethics (London:
Blackwell)
One of the illusions of Empire is that its people are
free. On the face of it, the argument in favour of freedom looks convincing.
Democracy offers not just government by consent and the vote for men and women
alike, but a host of other freedoms which were unimaginable to the European
peasant and plebeian of Medieval Europe. Residence is no longer regulated by the
mores of patronage, class or clan; instead, personal wealth, building
regulations and the practicalities of work and education are the crucial factors
in choosing where to live. Citizens can decide their employment, education
allowing, with little or even no reference to how ones father or mother earned
his or her livelihood. Many other rights are guaranteed in principle – freedom
of thought, conscience and religion; freedom of expression and association;
freedom from discrimination; and the right to a fair trial, as long as the
person is not an enemy of the Imperium, of course.
Unveiling Traditions
Anouar Majid (2000) Unveiling Traditions:
Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World (NC: Duke University Press)
Examines extent Islam shapes intellectual practice
in Muslim societies; Give Islamic culture greater prominence in postcolonial
and multicultural theories
Progressive Islam - human solidarity; Critique of capitalism, which entails
a call for a change in the “rules that frame our thoughts and behaviours”.
“Eurocentric vocabulary is remarkably common and transcends most ideological
boundaries” (p. 2) – secularism, origins in European enlightenment. “The
tone of ‘reasonableness’ and the exalted virtues of the scholarly sang froid
and emotional detachment that the secular attitude embodies often hide the
controversial origins of the secularization process and its inextricable
connection to a wider body of thought that continues to assume the
naturalness of bourgeois social and political organisation” (p.3)
Governing the Soul of the Rose
Rose, N. (1999) Governing the Soul: Shaping of the
Private Self (London: Free Association Books Ltd)
There are several important issues raised within this
thesis that have pertinence to the Tasneem Project [TGP]. First is the moral
contradictions which have arisen from this pervading governmentality -
especially between freedom and choice and self-regulation. Freedom and
choice, in this context, is the freedom and choice of the consumer. What
Rose is suggesting, and I think quite rightly, is that corporate consumerism
is the defining theme of contemporary culture. This raises the question as
to what extent Islam can ever be 'integrated' into such a culture, or
indeed, whether one of the defining ethics of Islam should be rejection of
this ethic. The core morality common to all governmental discourses -
consensuality and excess, as well as the ethic of authenticity versus
hypocrisy, further highlights this question.
Arkoun Rethinks Islam
Arkoun, M (2003) 'Rethinking Islam Today' ANNALS
AAPSS 588 July 2003 p.18-39
In studying progressive Muslim masculinities, I am
studying Islam. Ever since I became a Muslim, I have dithered, dived, ducked
and eventually come to face a number of important questions, including: (1)
What does it mean to be a Muslim in the light of contemporary understandings
of language, society and history? (2) How can I answer this question in a
way which effects a personal transformation of the kind apparently demanded
by The Qur'an? The framing of both these queries is achieved, to a large
degree, by Arkoun in 'Rethinking Islam Today'.
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