Anthropology of Islam

Mahmood, Saba; Landry, Jean‐Michel

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“…In the post/colonial history of anthropology, Sufi Islam has received significant attention with diverse lines of inquiry across generations of ethnographers (Evans-Pritchard 1949;Geertz 1971;Gilsenan 1973;Crapanzano 1973;Rabinow 1977). Anthropological scholarship on "Islamic mysticism" has focused on distinctive forms of local/regional religious expressions as rural folk Islam, positioning these expressions as antithetical to the urban, scriptural/ scholarly faith (Mahmood and Landry 2017), among Muslims in Egypt (Gilsenan 1973(Gilsenan , [1982(Gilsenan ] 2000, Morocco (Gellner 1969;Crapanzano 1973), Morocco and Indonesia (Geertz [1968] 1971), and West Africa (Cruise O'Brien 1971)…”

Section: Anthropology Of Sufism (And Healing)mentioning

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Breathing Hearts

Selim

2024

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Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular and religious suffering. It tracks the Desire Lines of multi-ethnic immigrants of color, and white German interlocutors to show how Sufi practices complicate the post secular imagination of healing in Germany.

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Section: Anthropology Of Sufism (And Healing)mentioning

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Breathing Hearts

Selim

2024

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“…He theorized a variety of Islam as the result of a discursive tradition. 60 According to him, Islam always encourages Muslims to seek true religious models and goals in practicing Islamic teachings. In every different space and time, Muslims always try to legitimize their religious practices with the main authoritative references (al-Qur'ān and al-Ḥadīth).…”

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“…In every different space and time, Muslims always try to legitimize their religious practices with the main authoritative references (al-Qur'ān and al-Ḥadīth). 61 These religious practices are the basis for the formation of discursive Islamic traditions so that the Islamic traditions in the world always display the heterogeneous Islams. 62 Asad viewed tradition as something that is dynamic because it is always required to respond to contemporary issues.…”

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Dialectics Between Islam and Local Culture in Wetu Telu Lombok Muslims’ Merariq Tradition: An ‘Urf Perspective

Fawaizul Umam,

Al Humaidy,

Amrulloh

2024

Al-Ihkam J. Huk. dan Pranata Sos

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This article discusses dialectical teachings between Islam and local culture among Wetu Telu Muslims, a local community in Lombok, which is often accused of developing a prototype of Islamic teachings mixed with deviant, heterodox, and heretical traditions. The discussion focuses on one form of their traditions that reflects the dialectics, namely the merariq in wedding tradition. By applying a qualitative approach, this study specifically portrayed relevant views of Wetu Telu Muslims which are relatively different from that of orthodox Muslims in Lombok. Based on the results of participatory observation and unstructured in-depth interviews, the study findings reveal that the traditions of the Wetu Telu Muslims, especially in merariq, reflect a dialectical teaching between Islam and local culture so that it can be named as an Islamic tradition. It is also clear that Wetu Telu's teachings are extremely tolerant to the local culture and this is proven, among others, through their wedding tradition. From the ‘Urf perspective, merariq wedding tradition is legitimate for recognition as an Islamic culture or Islamic legal practice even though some aspects of the tradition differ from the general principles of Islamic orthodoxy in Indonesia.

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“…Em outros trabalhos, verificam-se menções acuradas sobre algumas questões, como conversão, gênero ou produção cultural (Chinnici, 2009;Jáuregui, 2019;Pineiro-Carreras, 2007;Utvaer Gasser, 2016;Valcarcel, 2013) nas comunidades estudadas. O que se define como "Antropologia do Islã" (Asad, 1986;Lukens-Bull, 1999;Mahmood y Landry, 2017;Schielke, 2018), ou seja, dentro de uma perspectiva êmica do ponto de vista etnográfico, encontra-se bem aparada em termos teórico-metodológicos, validando assim a maioria dos 33 Ver, Capítulos 4 e 5. 34 Ver, Capítulo 5.…”

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Produções acadêmicas sobre o sufismo do ponto de vista antropológico

Ferraz Bartel

2023

Rev. Mus. Antrop.

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O objetivo é fazer um balanço das produções acadêmicas sobre o sufismo entre Argentina e Brasil, bem como analisar os processos de desenvolvimento que permitiram a construção preliminar desse campo de estudo na Antropologia Social nos últimos 30 anos em ambos os países. O sufismo engloba o resultado da mobilização de ferramentas conceituais e técnicas corporais adquiridas por meio de um processo de iniciação, no qual compreende-se o compartilhamento de ensinamentos morais e exercícios físicos de quem o adere. A comparação proposta visa problematizar os principais temas de pesquisa e os debates teórico-metodológicos a partir do levantamento de monografias nos repositórios institucionais de universidades (Argentina) e no banco da CAPES (Brasil) para compor o quadro de diversidade de experiências empíricas nas seguintes regiões: Buenos Aires, Patagônia e Santa Fé (Argentina) e Distrito Federal, Rio de Janeiro e Rio Grande do Sul (Brasil). Destaca-se que as análises dos diversos autores refletem a complexidade das formas de adesão e práticas devocionais que evidenciam os fluxos de criatividade nas relações constituídas entre seus praticantes. O contraste dessas comunidades apresentado na produção bibliográfica permite repensar as dinâmicas locais a partir de seus arranjos específicos, já que as diferenças culturais dentro do mundo muçulmano produzem uma enorme variedade de formas de definir, praticar e vivenciar o Islã.

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Anthropology of Islam

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Breathing Hearts

Dialectics Between Islam and Local Culture in Wetu Telu Lombok Muslims’ Merariq Tradition: An ‘Urf Perspective

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