As a world religion Islam is based on a highly abstract and absolute notion of the transcendent, which its followers establish and celebrate – in a seemingly contradictory fashion – at very specific sites: Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and the vast and complex landscapes of mosques and Muslim saints' shrines around the world. Sacred locality has thus become a paradigm for the relationship between the human and the transcendent, a model for urban planning, regional networks, imaginary spaces, and spiritual hierarchies alike. This importance of saintly places has, however, become increasingly complicated and troubled by reformist currents within Islam, on the one hand, and the emergence of modern archeology and anthropology, on the other. While they have often tended to posit ›the local‹ in opposition to ›the universal‹, in this volume islamologists, anthropologists, and sociologists offer new ways of thinking about the local, the place, and the conceptual landscapes and spaces of saints. In this, its eighth volume, the Yearbook for the Sociology of Islam looks at different sites and regions around the Muslim world (notably Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Southeast Asia) not as ›localized‹ versions of a universal Islam, but as constitutive of one particular outlook of the universalizing order of a world religion.
Chapter 1. Sufi Regional Cults in South Asia and Indonesia: Towards a Comparative AnalysisSeiten 25 - 46 Pnina Werbner Download Kapitel (PDF)
Chapter 2. (Re)Imagining Space: Dreams and Saint Shrines in EgyptSeiten 47 - 66 Amira Mittermaier Download Kapitel (PDF)
Chapter 3. Remixing Songs, Remaking MULIDS: The Merging Spaces of Dance Music and Saint Festivals in EgyptSeiten 67 - 88 Samuli Schielke, Georg Stauth Download Kapitel (PDF)
Chapter 4. Notes on Locality, Connectedness, and SaintlinessSeiten 89 - 100 Armando Salvatore Download Kapitel (PDF)
Chapter 5. Saints (awliya''), Public Places and Modernity in EgyptSeiten 103 - 124 Amira Mittermaier, Katja Werthmann, Armando Salvatore, Patrick A. Desplat, Pnina Werbner Download Kapitel (PDF)
Chapter 6. Islam on both Sides: Religion and Locality in Western Burkina FasoSeiten 125 - 148 Katja Werthmann Download Kapitel (PDF)
Chapter 7. The Making of a ''Harari'' City in Ethiopia: Constructing and Contesting Saintly Places in HararSeiten 149 - 168 Patrick A. Desplat Download Kapitel (PDF)
Chapter 8. Merchants and Mujahidin: Beliefs about Muslim Saints and the History of Towns in EgyptSeiten 169 - 182 Amira Mittermaier, Katja Werthmann, Armando Salvatore, Patrick A. Desplat, Pnina Werbner Download Kapitel (PDF)
