Explores the impact of the ethnographic method on the representation of Islam in anthropology.

Table of Contents

• Introduction Baudouin Dupret, Thomas Pierret, Paulo Pinto and Kathryn Spellman-Poots
• PART ONE: PERFORMING RITUALS
• 1. Black Magic, Divination and Remedial Reproductive Agency in Northern Pakistan EMMA VARLEY
• 2. Preparing for the Hajj in Contemporary Tunisia: Between Religious and Administrative Ritual Katia Boissevain
• 3. “There Used To Be Terrible Disbelief”: Mourning and Social Change in Northern Syria Katharina Lange
• 4. Manifestations of Ashura among Young British Shi'is Kathryn Spellman-Poots
• 5. The Ma'ruf: An Ethnography of Ritual (South Algeria) Yazid Ben Hounet
• 6. The Sufi Ritual of the Darb al-Shish and the Ethnography of Religious Experience Paulo G. Pinto
• 7. Preaching for Converts: Knowledge and Power in the Sunni Community in Rio de Janeiro Gisele Fonseca Chagas
• 8. Worshipping the Martyr President: The Darih of Rafiq Hariri in Beirut Ward Vloeberghs
• 9. Staging the Authority of the Ulama: The Celebration of the Mawlid in Urban Syria Thomas Pierret
• PART TWO: CONTEXTUALISING INTERACTIONS
• 10. The Salafi and the Others: An Ethnography of Intracommunal Relations in French Islam Cédric Baylocq and Akila Drici-Bechikh
• 11. Describing Religious Practices among University Students: A Case Study from the University of Jordan, Amman Daniele Cantini
• 12. Referring to Islam in Mutual Teasing: Notes on an Encounter between Two Tanzanian Revivalists Sigurd D'hondt
• 13 Salafis as Shaykhs: Othering the Pious in Cairo Aymon Kreil
• 14 Ethics of Care, Politics of Solidarity: Islamic Charitable Organisations in Turkey Hilal Alkan-Zeybek
• 15. Making Shari'a Alive: Court Practice under an Ethnographic Lens Susanne Dahlgren
• 16. Referring to Islam as a Practice: Audiences, Relevancies and Language Games within the Egyptian Parliament Enrique Klaus and Baudouin Dupret
• 17. Contesting Public Images of ‘Abd al-Halim Mahmud (1910-78): Who is an Authentic Scholar? Hatsuki Aishima
• PART THREE: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF HISTORY
• 18. Possessed of Documents: Hybrid Laws and Translated Texts in the Hadhrami Diaspora Michael Gilsenan
• About the Contributors