New Methodological Perspectives in Islamic Studies

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Note on Transliteration



1 Introduction: Moving Beyond

 Aaron W. Hughes and Abbas Aghdassi



2 “Islam and…” Thinking about Islam through the Act of Comparison

 Aaron W. Hughes



Part 1: Gender

3 Toward a “Hermeneutics of Trust” in the Current Discussion on a Gender-Just Interpretation of Islamic Primary Texts

 Eva Kepplinger



4 The Discursive Construction of Women’s Guile in the Muslim Exegetical Tradition

 Taira Amin



Part 2: The Political

5 Contemporary Turkish Academic Approach to Christianity

The Case of the New Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam (DİA)

 Betül Avcı



6 New Methods for Understanding Political Islam

Tradition-Constituted Rationality and the Theory of the Spirit of Meaning in the Work of Naʾini

 Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat



7 Recontextualizing Islam in the Social and Collective Memory

Tracing the Sociogenesis of Martyrdom in Türkiye

 Meral Durmuş and Bahattin Akşit



Part 3: Lived Islams

8 Old, New or Digital Philology

Working towards an Amalgamated Work Frame

 Walid Ghali



9 New Lenses for an Ethnography of Islam

The Case of Mevlid Ceremonies

 Isabella Crespi and Martina Crescenti



10 Lived Institutions in the Study of Islam

 Brian Arly Jacobsen, Pernille Friis Jensen, Kirstine Sinclair and Niels Valdemar Vinding



11 Everyday Islam

Moving beyond the Piety and Orthodoxy Divide

 Magdalena Pycińska



12 Moving from a Madrasa Situation to the Process of Doctrinal Development

An Explication of the Extended Case Method in the Study of Islam

 Zahraa McDonald



13 A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Lived Islam and Muslimness

 Emin Poljarevic



14 Back to Critique

Islamic Studies and the Vicious Hermeneutic Circle

 Abdessamad Belhaj



Index