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(Duke University Professor Katherine Ewing’s Suggestions marked with an asterix)
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*Mahmood, Saba. The Politics of Piety.Princeton, New Jersey, PrincetonUniversity Press: 2005.
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Link to McMaster University Professor Celia Rothenberg’s Syllabus on Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Islam:
Additional authors suggested by Professor Rothenberg:
Janice Boddy (Wombs and Alien Spirits), Saba Mahmoud, Coombs-Schilling, Unni Wikan, Carol Delaney, Michael Gilsenan, Paul Dresch, Jonah Blank, and Andrew Shryock.