Muslim Networks From Hajj To Hip Hop

by Cooke, Miriam; Lawrence, Bruce B.

• ISBN13: 9780807855881
• ISBN10: 080785588X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-30
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks. This volume selects major moments and key players from the 7th century to the present that have defined Muslim networks as the key building blocks for Islamic identity and social cohesion. This important study invokes the past not only to understand the present but also to reimagine the future.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Carl W. Ernst and Bruce B. Lawrence	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction
miriam cooke and Bruce B. Lawrence	1	(30)
PART I: DEFINING MUSLIM NETWORKS
1 Ibn Battuta's Opportunism: The Networks and Loyalties of a Medieval Muslim Scholar
Vincent J. Cornell	31	(20)
2 A Networked Civilization?
David Gilmartin	51	(18)
3 The Network Metaphor and the Mosque Network in Iran, 1978-1979
Charles Kurzman	69	(15)
4 The Scope and Limits of Islamic Cosmopolitanism and the Discursive Language of the 'Ulama'
Muhammad Qasim Zaman	84	(23)
PART II: IMAGINING MUSLIM NETWORKS
5 The Problem of Islamic Art
Judith Ernst	107	(25)
6 Sacred Narratives Linking Iraqi Shiite Women across Time and Space
Tayba Hassan Al Khalifa Sharif	132	(23)
7 The Islamic Salon: Elite Women's Religious Networks in Egypt
Sarnia Serageldin	155	(14)
8 Voices of Faith, Faces of Beauty: Connecting American Muslim Women through Azizah
Jamillah Karim	169	(22)
PART III: TRACING MUSLIM NETWORKS
9 Ideological and Technological Transformations of Contemporary Sufism
Carl W. Ernst	191	(17)
10 The Salafi Movement: Violence and the Fragmentation of Community
Quintan Wiktorowicz	208	(27)
11 Defining Islamic Interconnectivity
Gary Bunt	235	(17)
12 Wiring Up: The Internet Difference for Muslim Networks
Jon W. Anderson	252	(12)
13 A New Research Agenda: Exploring the Transglobal Hip Hop Umma
H. Samy Alin	264
Afterword
Taieb Belghazi	275	(8)
Bibliography	283	(20)
Contributors	303	(4)
Index	307