Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Content V
3. Why Rethinking the Anthropology of Islam? IX
4. Acknowledgements XXV
5. Publications of Roman Loimeier XXVII
6. Congratulants XXXVII
7. Part I: Methodological Reflections on Social Practices and Cultural Productions of Meaning
8. In the Event of the Lineage 1
9. Notes Toward a Baraza Sociology ... 23
10. This Is Tanta: Or What I Learned from Acting in an Unprofessional Manner during Fieldwork 39
11. Measuring Risk in Pandemic Times: Social Relationships and Testing Technologies 49
12. Part II. Religion I: Negotiating New Religious Values and Spaces
13. Faith-Oriented Schooling as Socio-Moral Intervention 61
14. Tropes of Longing and Loss 85
15. Espaces sacrés et personnification écologique 109
16. (Garden-)Walls: A Study of Religions’s Exploration of Constructive Makers of Space 129
17. Part II. Religion II: Agency in the Context of Religious Tradition and Change
18. Pioneers of Piety 153
19. ‘Speaking for Islam’: Three Malams and Their Claims to ʿIlm in a Zongo in Asante 169
20. Between the Sociology of Religious Authority and the Anthropology of Religious Discourse: Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara and His Blasphemy Trial in Nigeria 191
21. Alternatives to Conveying Religious Knowledge: Islamic Influencers – Insights from Egypt 219
22. Part III. Society I: Social and Political Aspects of Change, and the Search for Identity from Historical and Cultural Perspectives
23. Brushing Max Weber against the Grain in African Historiography: The Case of Pre-Colonial and Colonial Ilọrin 239
24. Of Jewels, Eyeglasses, and Books: Muḥibb al-Dīn al-Khaṭīb as Booktrader and Publisher in the Early 1920s 257
25. Warum der falsche Prophet im Nil ertrinkt: Unorthodoxe Bemerkungen zur postkolonialen Lesart von al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥs Roman Mausim al-hiğra ilā l-šimāl 273
26. ‘Zanzibaris’ in Durban? South African Muslims and Racial Classification in 20th Century South Africa 303
27. Social Movements and Collective Identity: A Cultural Approach 333
28. Part III. Society II: Gendered Agency and Discourses
29. ‘Honour’-Crime? Femicide? ‘Just’ Family Violence? Was it the Jinnī in the End? Narratives around a Young Woman’s Death in Palestine in 2019 355
30. Women and the City: Observations on Muslim Women’s Lives in Kano (Nigeria) and Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) 379
31. Women and the Hajj in Senegal and Burkina Faso since 1980: Strategies, Initiatives, and Perceptions 399
32. Discourse on Women in Tunisia: Between State Feminism, Patriarchy and Islamic Tendencies 423
33. Gendered Expectations: Reflections on Domestic Labour and the Digitalization of Everyday Life in Egypt 443
34. List of Contributors 461