ISBN:
978-1-350-13830-8
,
978-1-350-13281-8
,
978-1-350-13282-5/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
,
978-1-350-13283-2/(ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 245 Seiten, 28 ungezählte Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
Keywords:
Islamische Staaten Islam
;
Materielle Kultur
;
Rohstoff
;
Sachkultur
;
Kulturwissenschaft
;
Religionsethnologie
;
Amulett
;
Gebet
;
Münze
;
Bekleidung
;
Schmuck
;
Ornament
;
Tagungsbericht
Abstract:
"Islam through Objects represents the state of the field of Islamic material cultural studies. With contributions from scholars of religion, anthropologists, art historians, folklorists, historians, and other disciplines, Anna Bigelow brings together a wide range of perspectives on Islamic materiality to debunk myths of Islamic aversion to material aspects of religion. Each chapter focuses on a single object in daily use by Muslims - prayer beads, coins, amulets, a cistern well, clothing, jewellery, bodily and domestic adornments - to consider both generic and particular aspects of the object in question. These narratives will engage the reader by describing and analyzing each object in terms of its provenance, materials, uses, and history, as well as the broader history, variety and uses of the object in Islamic history and cultures. Temporal, regional, and sectarian variations in the styles, uses, and theological perspectives are also considered. Framed by an introduction that assesses the various approaches to Islamic material culture in recent scholarship, Islam through Objects provides a template for the study of religion and material culture, which engages current theory, subtle and nuanced narratives, and the creative and imaginal capacities of Muslims through history"
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND PLATES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: Thinking with Islamic Things -- Objects as orientations -- Authorizing discourses: texts and talks -- What matters? Power and presence -- Sensing sensibilities -- Material Islamic studies -- PART ONE Tracing Images -- CHAPTER ONE Clothes of Righteousness: The MGT Uniform in the Twentieth Century -- History of the Nation of Islam -- Early sartorial practices in the Nation of Islam -- Sister Ethel -- New beginnings of the MGT uniform -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER TWO The Masonic Muhammad: Modern Franco-Iranian Visual Encounters in Prophetic Iconography -- Whence the "Young Muhammad"? -- Interwoven paths: Muhammad among the great men of the world -- From France to Iran: Masonic pathways -- A prophetic peg in the matrix of modernity -- CHAPTER THREE Repetition and Relics: Tracing the Lives of Muhammad's Sandal -- PART TWO Identifying Objects -- CHAPTER FOUR "The Greatest and Only Flag Known:" The Lapel Pin in American Islam -- Prehistories -- The Nation of Islam -- The Five Percenters -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER FIVE Tasbih in West African Islamic History: Spirituality, Aesthetic, Politics, and Identity -- Introduction -- Tasbih and its controversies -- Tasbih in religious reform and colonial discourse -- Tasbih and doctrinal contests -- Tasbih in intra-doctrinal polemics -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER SIX Caps, Heads, and Hearts -- Introduction -- What's in a hat -- Crowns, turbans or four-cornered caps -- Beauty and love in the cap awry -- Modern mentalities -- Conclusion -- PART THREE Objects in Practice -- CHAPTER SEVEN What Comes to Light When a Lamp is Lit in Bektashi Tradition -- The lamp and its absences in Bektashi tradition -- The lamp-lighting rite
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