Islam, Politics, Anthropology

Filippo Osella is a Reader in Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. For the past 20 years, Osella has conducted research in South India, and more recently in a number of West Asian Gulf countries. His current research focuses on the emergence of Islamic reformist movements and the rise of a new Muslim middle class in Kerala. Benjamin Soares is an anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Afrika-Studiecentrum in Leiden, The Netherlands. Soares' publications include Islam and the Prayer Economy (2005) and two edited volumes, Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa (2007) and Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa (2006).

• Notes on Contributors vii1 Benjamin Soares & Filippo Osella Islam, politics, anthropology 12 Samuli Schielke Being good in Ramadan: ambivalence, fragmentation, and the moral self in the lives of young Egyptians 233 Hatsuki Aishima & Armando Salvatore Doubt, faith, and knowledge: the reconfiguration of the intellectual field in post-Nasserist Cairo 394 Magnus Marsden A tour not so grand: mobile Muslims in northern Pakistan 545 Kai Kresse Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya: negotiating knowledge on the double-periphery 726 Rosa De Jorio Between dialogue and contestation: gender, Islam, and the challenges of a Malian public sphere 917 Lara Deeb Piety politics and the role of a transnational feminist analysis 1078 Julie McBrien Mukadas’s struggle: veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan 1219 Irfan Ahmad Genealogy of the Islamic state: reflections on Maududi’s political thought and Islamism 13810 Maimuna Huq Talking jihad and piety: reformist exertions among Islamist women in Bangladesh 15611 Daromir Rudnyckyj Market Islam in Indonesia 17512 Filippo Osella & Caroline Osella Muslim entrepreneurs in public life between India and the Gulf: making good and doing good 19413 Gregory Starrett Islam and the politics of enchantment 213Index 231