Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond

Historical and Contemporary Case Studies

Av Simon Stjernholm, Elisabeth Özdalga

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Beskrivning

Preaching has been central to Muslim communities throughout the centuries. The liturgical Friday sermon is a prime example, although other genres that are less commonly known also serve important functions. This book addresses the ways in which Muslims relate various forms of religious oratory to authoritative tradition in 21st-century Islamic practice, while striving to adapt to local contexts and the changing circumstances of politics, media and society. This is the first book of its kind to look at homiletics beyond a specific country focus. Taking into consideration the historical developments of Muslim preaching, it offers a collection of thoroughly contextualised case studies of oratory in Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Sweden and the USA. The analyses presented here show shared emphasis on struggles for legitimacy, efforts to speak authoritatively, as well as discursive opportunities and constraints.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2020-07-22
Mått: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt: 490 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 224
Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474467476

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Simon Stjernholm is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He publishes in both Swedish, Danish and English and his research has previously appeared in a number of key Anglophone journals, including the Journal of Muslims in Europe and the Journal of Contemporary Religion. He has also contributed to a number of edited volumes, including Francesco Piraino & Mark Sedgwick’s Global Sufism (Hurst & Co, 2019) and Ron Geaves & Theodore Gabriel’s Sufism in Britain (Bloomsbury, 2013). This is his first edited volume in English.. Elisabeth Özdalga is a retired senior researcher, and before that director, of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. She was professor of sociology at the Middle East University in Ankara 1994-2009 and visiting chair of the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Ankara 2011-13. She is the editor of several anthologies, among others Late Ottoman Society (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), Novel and Nation in the Muslim World (with Daniella Kuzmanovic) (Palgrave 2015), Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond (with Simon Stjernholm) (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), and author of ‘Islamism and Nationalism as Sister Ideologies: Reflections on the Politicization of Islam in a Longue Durée Perspective,’ Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 407-23, May 2009.

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[This book presents] a global picture of Islamic preaching in various contexts, from early Islam to Swedish suburbs. This testifies to the lively tradition of Islamic rhetoric beyond time and space. Here, the chapters on rhetoric situated in Swedish and Egyptian contexts make the most solid contribution. As a whole, the book could be useful to scholars and students of Islamic Studies, anthropology and Arabic literature.

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