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Tag Archives: Qur’an
A Merry Muslim Christmas!
by Philip L. Tite This post originally appeared on the author’s blog on Christmas Day. So as it is Christmas Day — and for the first time in three years I’m actually celebrating Christmas (long story) — I wanted to … Continue reading
Rethinking Contested Ground: The Study of Islam in/and the Study of Religion
The following is Matt Sheedy’s introductory essay for the panel of articles on the state and future of Islamic studies, which appears in the November 2014 issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (the full table of contents … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, Editorial, Matt Sheedy, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory & Religion Series, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Aaron Hughes, biblical studies, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Edward E. Curtis IV, emic, etic, Islam, Islamic studies, James Crossley, Jewish studies, Judaism, Omid Safi, Qur'an, Qur'anic studies, Religion, religious studies, Ruth Mas, Sarah Imhoff, scholarship, Vernon James Schubel
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Debating a Discipline, Contesting Identities, and the Future of Islamic Studies
The following is the editorial introduction to the November 2014 issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion (the full table of contents having already been posted). We offer this editorial here on the blog in order to give … Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Announcements, Editorial, Joseph Laycock, Matt Sheedy, Natasha Mikles, Philip L. Tite, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World
Tagged Aaron Hughes, Atheism, Belief, biblical studies, Buddhism, Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Edward E. Curtis IV, emic, etic, Hinduism, Islam, Islamic studies, James Crossley, Jewish studies, Judaism, Loch Ness, Loch Ness Monster, naga, NEH, new atheism, Omid Safi, orientalism, Qur'an, Qur'anic origins, Qur'anic studies, Religion, religious studies, Richard Amesbury, Ruth Mas, Sarah Imhoff, scholarship, Scotland, secularism, Vernon James Schubel
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Ode to Islamic Studies: Its Allure, Its Danger, Its Power
by Edward E. Curtis IV Editor’s note: This post is part of the Reflections on Islamic Studies series. By any measure, Islamic studies is a vibrant field. In the last several decades, the number of tenure-track positions dedicated to the study … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Religion, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Uncategorized
Tagged Carl Stoneham, Clifford Geertz, Dale Eickleman, Edward E. Curtis IV, fiqh, Fred Donner, hadith, historical Muhammad, Islamic studies, John Bowen, Journal of Africana Religions, Muhammad, Muhammad and the Believers at the Origins of Islam, Muslim Journeys Bookshelf, orientalism, Qur'an, Reflections on Islamic Studies, Ruth Mas, Saba Mahmoud, Talal Asad, The Call of Bilal: Islam in the African Diaspora
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Some responses to “Qur’anic Reading as Embodied Practice”
I had a few responses to Summar Shoaib’s “Qur’anic Reading as Embodied Practice“. The first response concerns the opposition which the piece creates between traditional Islamic and so-called “Western” modes of reading. These two great abstractions (the traditional Islamic and the Western) are of course immensely … Continue reading
Posted in Deane Galbraith, Religion and Theory
Tagged body practices, Islam, Meaning, Qur'an, reading
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Qur’anic Reading as Embodied Practice
By Summar Shoaib In Western traditions, whether religious or scholarly, reading and meaning are typically understood in solely cognitive terms, as a matter of extracting content from a text by way of the mind’s interpretive efforts. In traditional Islamic worlds, … Continue reading
Marines Teach “True” Islam in Afghanistan
The following is a guest post from Cris, a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the University of Colorado-Boulder. This post originally appeared 30 August at his blog, Genealogy of Religion. ********** It is always a sign of war going badly … Continue reading