Islam through Objects

Anna Bigelow is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University, USA.

Introduction: Thinking with Islamic Things, Anna Bigelow (Stanford University, USA)
Part I: Tracing Images
1. Clothes of Righteousness: The MGT Uniform in the 20th Century, Kayla Renee Wheeler (Grand Valley State University, USA)
2. The Masonic Muhammad: Modern Franco-Iranian Visual Encounters in Prophetic Iconography, Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan, USA)
3. Relic Reproduction: Tracing the Lives of Muhammad’s Sandal, Richard McGregor (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Part II: Identifying Objects
4. “The Greatest and Only Flag Known”: The Lapel Pin in American Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight (University of Central Florida, USA)
5. Tasbih in West African Islamic History: Spirituality, Aesthetics, Politics, and Identity, Ousman Murzik Kobo (Ohio State University, USA)
6. Caps, Heads, and Hearts, Scott Kugle (Emory University, USA)
Part III: Objects in Practice
7. What Comes to Light When a Lamp Is Lit in Bektashi Tradition, Mark Soileau (Haceteppe University, Turkey)
8. The Agency of the Material Taviz (Amulet) in a South Indian Healing Room, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger (Emory University, USA)
9. The Life of a Tablet, Aomar Boum (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Part IV: Circulatory Systems
10. Coins and Fish: Sovereignty, Economy, and Religion in the Islamicate Indian Ocean, Roxani Margariti (Emory University, USA)
11. The Aljibe del Rey, D. Fairchild Ruggles (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
12. Zamzam Water: Scales of Environmentality and Decolonizing Material Islam, Anna Gade (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
Bibliography
Index