Duke University Professor Katherine Ewing S Suggestions Marked with an Asterix

Bibliography

(Duke University Professor Katherine Ewing’s Suggestions marked with an asterix)

Ahmed, Akbar S. “Toward Islamic Anthropology,” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1986.

*Abu-Lughod, Lila. Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt.University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 2005.

Asad, Talal. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity.Stanford

University Press, Stanford, California, 2003.

Asad, Talal. “The Idea of An Anthropology of Islam,” March 1986.*Bowen, John R. Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning.CambridgeUniversity Press, Cambridge: 2003.

Davies, Merryl Wyn. Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology. Mansell Publishing Limited, London: 1988.

*Eickelman, Dale and Anderson, Jon W., ed. New media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere. Second Edition, IndianaUniversity Press, Bloomington, 2003.

Eickelman, Dale F. The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: 1998.

el-Zein, Abdul Hamid. “Beyond Ideology and Theology: The Search for the Anthropology of Islam.” Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 6, pp. 227-254.

Geertz, Clifford. Islam Observed, New Haven, YaleUniversity Press: 1968.

Hirschkind, Charles. “Hearing Modernity: Egypt, Islam, and the Pious Ear,” in Fox, Richard G., ed. Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity. Berg, New York, 2004.

Holmes-Eber, Paula. Daughters of Tunis: Women, Family, and Networks in a MuslimCity. Westview Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2003.

Lukens-Bull, Ronald. “Between Text and Practice: Considerations in the

Anthropological Study of Islam.” Marburg Journal of Religion 4(2)p. 1-24: 1999.

*Mahmood, Saba. The Politics of Piety.Princeton, New Jersey, PrincetonUniversity Press: 2005.

Ma’ruf A. Muhammad. “The Rescuing of Muslim Anthropological Thought,” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1987.

*Messick, Brinkley. The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society.University of California Press, Berkeley,California: 1993.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. “Islam at the Dawn of the New Christian Millenium,” in Samatar, Ahmed I., ed. Contending Gods: Religion and the Global Moment.MacalasterCollege, St. Paul, Minnesota, 2000.

Rosen, Lawrence. The Culture of Islam.University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 2002.

Starrett, Gregory. “The Anthropology of Islam” in Glazier, Stephen D., ed. Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook.Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1997.

Varisco, Daniel Martin. Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation.MacMillan, New York, 2005.

Werbner, Pnina. Pilgrims of Love: The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult.IndianaUniversity Press, Bloomington, 2003.

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.