Time, Virtuality, and the Digital Sacred
In Season 2 of the show Ramy, two Muslim American men perform umrah (the minor pilgrimage to Mecca) while sitting in an Atlantic City hotel room. Ramy is…
Tag: Islam
Kooperation von REMID und INFORM im internationalen New Religiosity Project
REMID e.V. freut sich, eine weitere internationale Kooperation mit INFORM, dem Information Network Focus on Religious Movements am King’s College London, bekanntzugeben. Im Rahmen des New Religiosity…
Decolonial theory needs to be grounded in reality
The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory edited by Jairo Funez-Flores et al. resists Eurocentric, institutionalised norms in decolonial theory by establishing a scholarship that takes a ground-up perspe…
Thomas Pierret: The Sunni Ulama: Syria’s Parliamentary Era as a Golden Age
One might intuitively assume that the Syrian Sunni ulama (religious scholars) would valorize periods emblematic of Islam’s bygone grandeur, such as the Umayyad or Ottoman empires. In practice,…
Islamic Ambitions and Imperial Imaginations: The Iranian Revolution in the longue durée
Since the US and Israel attacked Iran, news has been flooding the public sphere every minute: confusing statements from politicians, contradictory assessments from commentators, and heated opinions on…
Islamische Ambitionen und imperiale Vorstellungen: Die iranische Revolution in der longue durée
Seitdem die USA und Israel den Iran angegriffen haben, fluten Nachrichten im Minutentakt den Raum der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit: verwirrende Verlautbarungen von Politiker:innen, widersprüchliche Ein…
How Islam evolved from its beginnings to now
John Tolan’s Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present offers a sweeping account of Islam’s evolution, highlighting influential figures, sectarian divisions, and global expansion. Though it…
What explains separatist, Islamist and communal conflicts in Indonesia?
Contesting Indonesia by Kirsten E. Schulze proposes a compelling framework of a national imaginary for understanding Islamist, separatist, and communal violence in Indonesia, grounded in interviews an…
Die Stadt Frankfurt zeichnet hervorragende Persönlichkeiten mit Migrationsgeschichte aus
„Ankommen heißt, sich aktiv als Teil der Gemeinschaft einzubringen“. Die Stadt Frankfurt zeichnet jedes Jahr hervorragende Persönlichkeiten mit Migrationsgeschichte aus. Diesmal sind sechs von ihnen m…
Why a world on fire needs anthropology
By Thijl Sunier – Those who were in the Netherlands between 6-8 November could not possibly have missed it. Riots broke out around a football match between the…
Q and A with Naila Kabeer on Renegotiating Patriarchy
In this interview with Anna D’Alton (LSE Review of Books), Naila Kabeer discusses her new book, Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox, forthcoming from LSE Press in Septe…
Mark LeVine on his book Heavy Metal Islam
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520389380/heavy-metal-islam Lara Sabra: Your book has shown that especially in the Middle East, which suffers from censorship and authoritarian regimes, art ca…
„Wir stellen Verbundenheit her.“ Ein Gespräch über Dialog in einer weltanschaulich und religiös pluralen Gesellschaft
Unsere Gesellschaften sind multi-polarisiert und unsere Identitäten mehrdimensional. Genau deshalb lohnt es sich zu fragen, was Zusammenhalt ausmacht. Hannan Salamat und Dina Wyler über ihre Arbeit im…
Let’s Agree . . .
That the deaths of civilians killed by the IDF targeting Hamas leaders, command centers, and weapons caches are tragedies. That the continuing occupation of the West Bank and…
Hoy no voy a creer en Dios: sólo quiero bailar
Read Time:7 Minute, 52 Second Rubén Blasco Rubén Blasco «La danza es la forma más antigua de oración» Bernhard Wosien Los derviche…
El Islam budificado de Kaliyuga en Indonesia
Pequeño oratorio musulmán en Howewer, una localidad de la isla de Serangan, cerca de Bali. Está tomada de http://www.liputra.com/ Apostilla a un comentario de ST en el blog, el…
Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality – review
In Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality, Shenila Khoja-Moolji recounts how Ismaili women, displaced from East Pakistan and East Africa in the 1970s,…
Alí-Bey, entre ellos y nosotros
Este artículo apareció en El País el 12 de junio de 1997, con motivo de la exposición “Ali Bey, un peregrí català per terres de l´Islam”, sobre la…
Book Review | Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants by Donghyun Danny Choi et al.
In Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants, Donghyun Danny Choi, Mathias Poertner and Nicholas Sambanis present the results of field work experiments conducted in Germany to understa…
Ep#103 Handwraps & Hijabs: Dr Jasmijn Rana on Kickboxing & Piety in the Netherlands
Welcome back to the Familiar Strange. We’re kicking off 2023 with an interview with Dr Jasmijn Rana from Leiden University. Dr Jasmijn’s research interests include, gender, race-ethnicity, relig…
Revolution, Reform, Umkehr: Der Fall Iran
Trotz brutaler Repression halten die Proteste im Iran weiterhin an. Der herrschende Klerus kann die „Massen“ nicht mehr hinter sich sammeln, wie er das seit dem 18. Jahrhundert…
Revolution, Reform, and Reversal: The Case of Iran
Despite brutal repression, protests in Iran continue. The ruling clergy can no longer rally the “masses” behind it, as it has done successfully time and again since the…
Iranian Women ask for ‘Life’ and ‘Freedom’
The veil has become a tool for resistance in Iran. Women set their veils on fire and demand self-determinacy over their bodies. The movement is not against religion.…
The Janus-face of bureaucratic incorporation of Islam in Europe
By Thijl Sunier On October 28, 2022, I shall give my valedictory lecture speech as professor of anthropology, chair of Islam in European Societies. The theme of the…