List of Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introducing Practices of Preaching 1
4. I Bodily Performances, Material Settings
5. The Somatic and the Sonic in Contemporary Urdu Shiʿi Khiṭābat 23
6. Mono- and Dialogicity in Islamic Sermons in German 41
7. Conceptualizing Contemporary Audiovisual Daʿwa 61
8. II Space and Meaning
9. Khuṭba Activism against Gender-Based Violence: The Claremont Main Road Mosque’s Community Tafsīr 77
10. Signifying the Preacher: Preaching Practices on Minbars Depicted in the Illustrated Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī 103
11. Preaching Islam in a Migratory Context: Sermons, Migrant Spaces, and Religious Practices among Keralite Sunni Muslim Migrants in Qatar 131
12. III Navigating the Normative
13. Instructing the Believers: Ottoman Bosnian Khalwati Sermons on Normative and Supererogatory Rituals 155
14. Theory, Practice, and Tradition in the Malay Khuṭba Manuals of Maḥmūd Zuhdī al-Faṭānī 175
15. IV Negotiating Authorities
16. Preaching, Admonishing, and the Struggle over Authority and Normativity between Scholars and Popular Preachers in Mamluk Society 199
17. “May God Bless the Caliph”: The Mentioning of Rulers in Friday Sermons of the Abbasid Era 221
18. Mufti Tariq Masood and the Performance of Religious Speech: Social Media and Religious Discourses in Pakistan 237
19. List of Contributors 257