Handbook of Contemporary Islam and Muslim Lives

1. “Cyber Ummah:” The Internet and Muslim Communities

   • Sahar Khamis

2. Contemporary Muslim Comedy

   • Jaclyn Michael

3. Contemporary Same-Sex Muslim Sexualities: Identities and Issues

   • Momin Rahman

4. Debates on Political Islam: Analyzing the Writings of Egyptian Scholars, Hasan al Banna and Sayed Qutb

   • Shahid Raza Khan

5. Democracy and Muslims

   • Halim Rane

6. Experience of Muslim Communities in the Middle East and North Africa: Introduction

   • Zeba Khan

7. Experience of Muslims in Australia and New Zealand

   • Jacqui Ewart, Kate O’Donnell

8. Experience of Muslims in East Africa

   • Erin E. Stiles

9. Experience of Muslims in Eastern Europe

   • Egdūnas Račius

10. Experience of Muslims in Francophone West Africa

    • Marta G. Novo

11. Experience of Muslims in Latin America

    • Silvia Montenegro

12. Experience of Muslims in North America

    • Carole Barnsley

13. Experience of Muslims in Southern Africa

    • Muhammed Haron

14. Experience of Muslims in the Republic of South Africa; Historical Perspective

    • Muhammed Haron

15. Experiences of Muslims in Western Europe

    • Oliver Scharbrodt

16. Halal Food

    • Derya Iner, Amina Baghdadi

17. Higher Education in Iran

    • Mohammad Azizi

18. Historical and Socio Political Overview of Islam in China

    • Tugrul Keskin, Yang Chen

19. Hizb ut-Tahrir

    • Elisa Orofino

20. Human Rights and Muslims

    • Leila Chamankhah

This is a comprehensive handbook which for the first time provides a general yet detailed discussion of contemporary Islam and various aspects of Muslim lives. It offers a much needed tool for an introduction to the world of contemporary Muslim life and debate, and a link of continuity between the Muslim world and Muslims living and born in the West. The reader gains access to articles by leading scholars who observe phenomena in a post-9/11 context and from a global viewpoint. The topics have been carefully selected to provide the reader with both the necessary general view that a good handbook must offer while presenting details and information, as well as ethnographic examples, to inspire further research and interest. Indeed, each chapter will offer topical reading suggestions from which one can expand the material discussed in the chapter. The approach of the handbook is mainly social-anthropological, but attention is given to other disciplines like history, geography, political studies, as well as gender studies and cultural studies.

• Contemporary Islam
• Contemporary Islamic Finance
• Contemporary Muslim Communities
• Cyberterrorism
• Islam and Internet
• Islam and politics
• Islam studies
• Islamic education
• Muslim – Islam culture
• Muslim life
• Muslims and gender
• Post 9/11

• Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, USA

  Ronald Lukens-Bull

• Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona State University, TEMPE, USA

  Mark Woodward

Mark Woodward is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and is also affiliated with the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. He is currently Visiting Professor of Comparative Religion at Gadjah Mada University and Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Indonesia. In 2008 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on religion-state-society relations and religion and conflict in Southeast Asia. He is author of Islam in Java. Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta, Defenders of Reason in Islam (1989)and Java, Indonesia and Islam (2010) co-author (with Richard Martin and Dwi Atmaja) of Defenders of Reason in Islam. Mutazilism from Medieval School to Modern Symbol (1997) and editor of Towards a New Paradigm: Intellectual Developments in Indonesian Islam (1996). He has published more than fifty scholarly articles in the US, Europe, Indonesia and Singapore, many co-authored with Southeast Asian scholars. He is currently directing a trans-disciplinary, multi-country project on counter-radical Muslim discourse.




Ronald Lukens-Bull has written significant works on the Anthropology of Islam. His 1999 theoretical article, "Between Text and Practice: Considerations in the Anthropological Study of Islam," Marburg Journal of Religion 4 (2): 10-20, 1999 has been reprinted and widely cited. Lukens-Bull addressed methodological and ethical issues in his 2007 article "Lost in a Sea of Subjectivity: The Subject Position of the Researcher in the Anthropology of Islam," Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life. 1(2):173-192. His ethnographic research has focused on Islamic education in Indonesia starting with traditional Islamic education in A Peaceful Jihad: Negotiating Modernity and Identity in Muslim Java (Palgrave McMillan, 2005), which examines how this community is engaging globalization through curriculum revisions. More recently, Lukens-Bull has held a Fulbright Senior Scholar grant which allowed him to examine Islamic higher education and the debates surrounding curriculum shift which in the current political climate leads to accusations of apostasy and in extreme cases barely veiled death threats. Theoretically, this work is important in understanding counter-radical discourses within the context of other Islamic discourse.  This was published in 2013 as Islamic Higher Education In Indonesia: Continuity and Conflict (PalgraveMcMillan, 2013).

His current research looks at the history and contemporary practices of GP Ansor, a youth movement with militia elements associated with Nahdlatul Ulama, the largest Islamic organization in Indonesia.

 

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