Description
Book SynopsisThis book offers an inclusive view of the diversity and complexity of the many worlds of Islam. By paying attention to Muslims who are socially, culturally, doctrinally, or politically marginalized, it provides a comprehensive and all-embracing vision of the religion and its many interrelated communities.
Trade ReviewThis book ambitiously engages Islam as a global civilizational presence. It offers a fresh rethinking of how we imagine Muslims and Islam, putting Muslim communities and discourses usually treated as ‘marginal’ back in the center. Strongly recommended for both students of Islamic studies and religious studies more widely. -- Omid Safi, author of
Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical TraditionAcross the Worlds of Islam points to an Islam that is full of both elasticity and contestation by foregrounding Muslims who are often seen as marginal or peripheral. It challenges how scholars have approached the field of Islamic studies and emphasizes the need for a more nuanced and ethnographic approach to the study of Islam in general and minority groups in particular. -- Liyakat Takim, author of
Shi’ism Revisited: Ijtihad and Reformation in Contemporary TimesIslam is more than Sunnism, Middle Eastern regions and language, and ‘orthodox’ norms. This book’s wide range of entries from scholars whose expertise spans the globe is a crucial addition to libraries, college classrooms, and public understanding—precisely because it shows just how much
more Islam is than mainstream understandings allow. -- Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst, author of
Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and JihadTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Edward E. Curtis IV
1. Islam and Its Others: Ambivalent Orientations Toward the Margins of Islam, by Farah Bakaari
2. Rethinking the Center: Margins and Multiplicity in Hadith Texts, by Michael Muhammad Knight
3. Islamic Tattooing: Embodying Healing, Materializing Relationships, and Mediating Tradition, by Max Johnson Dugan
4. Lover’s Words Are Eternal: Alevi Ashik Poetry Beyond the Margins, by Tess M. Waggoner
5. On the Margins of Islamic Doctrine, at the Heart of Islamic Ethics: Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam and Black Liberation, by Edward E. Curtis IV
6. Love and Care at the Margins of Future Generations, by Holly Donahue Singh
7. Writing Mongol History on the Margins: Sufi and Kinship Connectivity in the
Tarikh-i Rashidi, by Henry D. Brill
8. Journey to the Teaching of Islam, by Kathryn D. Blanchard
Conclusion: Let the Margins Be the Center, by Vernon James Schubel
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index
