New Methods in the Study of Islam

Methods play a key role in how we access and subsequently organise data. There is a tendency, however, for scholars to focus primarily on their data at the expense of the methodological acts that bring such data into existence in the first place. The academic study of Islam is certainly no different in this regard. Indeed, many continue to employ established or classic methods that often echo (neo-)orientalist and other political inclinations. This collection, in contrast, offers an alternative, providing a set of multi-disciplinary approaches that focus on how we create, study and disseminate 'Islamic data'.

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New Methods in the Study of Islam

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures
pp vii-vii

Series Editors’ Foreword
pp viii-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

Notes on Contributors
pp xiii-xviii

Note on Transliteration
pp xix-xix

Dedication
pp xx-xx

1 - Introduction: Why New Methods in the Study of Islam?
pp 1-10

Part I - Methods: Old and New
pp 11-12

2 - New Methods, Old Methods in the Study of Islam:On the Importance of Translation
pp 13-35

3 - The Reception of al-Andalus, 1821–2021: Two HundredYears of Study and Debate
pp 36-68

Part II - Textual Studies
pp 69-70

4 - Subversive Philology? Prosopography as a Relational andCorpus-Based Approach to Early Islamic History
pp 71-107

5 - Juxtaposition, Tension, Play: The Development ofIslamic Law and Legal Theory
pp 108-126

6 - New Theoretical Approaches to the Qurʾān and Qurʾānic Studies:An Analysis of the Qurʾānic (Disabled) Body in Light ofConceptual Metaphor and Conceptual Blending Theory
pp 127-164

Part III - Islam and/as Critique
pp 165-166

7 - On the Relationship between Culture/Religion and Politics:A Critique of the Culturalist Approach to Islam
pp 167-196

Part IV - New Comparisons
pp 197-198

8 - Can Comparative Theology Help Muslims to a BetterUnderstanding of Religious Diversity?
pp 199-220

Part V - Local Islams
pp 221-222

9 - Eastern or Western Paradigm: The Struggle for MethodologicalDominance in the Study of Islam in Universities inNorthern Nigeria
pp 223-251

10 - Narratives from the Peripheries: An Indian Ocean Perspectivefor the Study of Islam
pp 252-277

11 - Including Localised Islamic Concepts in the Study of Islam
pp 278-305

12 - Bodies, Things, Doings: A Practice Theory Approach tothe Study of Islam
pp 306-327

Index
pp 328-332

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