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• Acknowledgments Latino America in the Umma/the Umma in Latino America (John Tofik Karam, Maria del Mar Logrono Narbona, and Paulo G. Pinto) Part I: Reconsidering History Chapter One. "De los Prohibidos": Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America (Karoline P. Cook) Chapter Two. African Rebellion and Refuge on the Edge of Empire (John Tofik Karam) Chapter Three. Ethnic and Religious Identification among Muslim East Indians in Suriname (1898-1954) (Ellen Bal and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff)
• Part II. Contemporary Cartographies Chapter Four. Institutionalizing Islam in Argentina: Comparing Community and Identity Configurations (Silvia Montenegro) Chapter Five. Conversion, Revivalism, and Tradition: The Religious Dynamics of Muslim Communities in Brazil (Paulo G. Pinto) Chapter Six. Guests of Islam: Conversion and the Institutionalization of Islam in Mexico (Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos) Chapter Seven. Cubans Searching for a New Faith in a New Context (Luis Mesa Delmonte) Chapter Eight. Muslims in Martinique (Liliane Kuczynski) Chapter Nine. Forming Islamic Religious Identity among Trinidadians in the Age of Social Networks (Halima-Sacadia Kassim)
• Part III. Islam Latina/o Chapter Ten. Dis-covering a Historical Consciousness: The Creation of a US Latina/o Muslim Identity (Hjamil A. Martinez-Vazquez) Chapter Eleven. Mapping Muslim Communities in "Hispanicized" South Florida (Mirsad Krijestorac) Chapter Twelve. Double-Edged Marginality and Agency: Latina Conversion to Islam (Yesenia King and Michael P. Perez)
• Conclusion List of Contributors Index.
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Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam's unity as it evolved through plural formulations of identity, power, and belonging. Offering a Latino American perspective on a wider Islamic world, the editors overturn the conventional perception of Muslim communities in the New World, arguing that their characterization as "minorities" obscures the interplay of ethnicity and religion that continues to foster transnational ties. Bringing together studies of Iberian colonists, enslaved Africans, indentured South Asians, migrant Arabs, and Latino and Latin American converts, the volume captures the power-laden processes at work in religious conversion or resistance. Throughout each analysis-spanning times of inquisition, conquest, repressive nationalism, and anti-terror security protocols-the authors offer innovative frameworks to probe the ways in which racialized Islam has facilitated the building of new national identities while fostering a double-edged marginalization. The subjects of the essays transition from imperialism (with studies of morisco converts to Christianity, West African slave uprisings, and Muslim and Hindu South Asian indentured laborers in Dutch Suriname) to the contemporary Muslim presence in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Trinidad, completed by a timely examination of the United States, including Muslim communities in "Hispanicized" South Florida and the agency of Latina conversion. The result is a fresh perspective that opens new horizons for a vibrant range of fields.
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• * Introduction: Islam and Popular Culture (Karin van Nieuwkerk, Mark LeVine, and Martin Stokes) * Part I. Popular Culture: Aesthetics, Sound, and Theatrical Performance in the Muslim World *
• Chapter 1. Listening Acts, Secular and Sacred: Sound Knowledge among Sufi Muslims in Secular France (Deborah Kapchan) *
• Chapter 2. Islamic Popular Music Aesthetics in Turkey (Martin Stokes) *
• Chapter 3. Theater of Immediacy: Performance Activism and Art in the Arab Uprisings (Mark LeVine and Bryan Reynolds ) * Part II. Artistic Protest and the Arab Uprisings *
• Chapter 4. "Islam Is There to Make People Free": Islamist Musical Narratives of Freedom and Democracy in the Moroccan Spring (Nina ter Laan) *
• Chapter 5. Visual Culture and the Amazigh Renaissance in North Africa and Its Diaspora (Cynthia Becker) *
• Chapter 6. Can Poetry Change the World? Reading Amal Dunqul in Egypt in 2011 (Samuli Schielke) * Part III. Islam: Religious Discourses and Pious Ethics *
• Chapter 7. The Sunni Discourse on Music (Jonas Otterbeck) *
• Chapter 8. Shica Discourses on Performing Arts: Maslaha and Cultural Politics in Lebanon (Joseph Alagha) *
• Chapter 9. Islam at the Art School: Religious Young Artists in Egypt (Jessica Winegar ) *
• Chapter 10. Writing History through the Prism of Art: The Career of a Pious Cultural Producer in Egypt (Karin van Nieuwkerk) * Part IV. Cultural Politics and Body Politics *
• Chapter 11. Ambivalent Islam: Religion in Syrian Television Drama (Christa Salamandra) *
• Chapter 12. Discourses of Religiosity in Post-1997 Iranian Popular Music (Laudan Nooshin) *
• Chapter 13. Sacred or Dissident: Islam, Embodiment, and Subjectivity on Post-Revolutionary Iranian Theatrical Stage (Ida Meftahi) *
• Chapter 14. Public Pleasures: Negotiating Gender and Morality through Syrian Popular Dance (Shayna Silverstein) * Part V: Global Flows of Popular Culture in the Muslim World *
• Chapter 15. Performing Islam around the Indian Ocean Basin: Musical Ritual and Recreation in Indonesia and the Sultanate of Oman (Anne K. Rasmussen) *
• Chapter 16. Muslims, Music, and Tolerance in Egypt and Ghana: A Comparative Perspective on Difference (Michael Frishkopf) *
• Chapter 17. Music Festivals in Pakistan and England (Thomas Hodgson) *
• Chapter 18. Fleas in the Sheepskin: Glocalization and Cosmopolitanism in Moroccan Hip-Hop (Kendra Salois) * Notes on Contributors * Index.
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Popular culture serves as a fresh and revealing window on contemporary developments in the Muslim world because it is a site where many important and controversial issues are explored and debated. Aesthetic expression has become intertwined with politics and religion due to the uprisings of the "Arab Spring, " while, at the same time, Islamist authorities are showing increasingly accommodating and populist attitudes toward popular culture. Not simply a "westernizing" or "secularizing" force, as some have asserted, popular culture now plays a growing role in defining what it means to be Muslim. With well-structured chapters that explain key concepts clearly, Islam and Popular Culture addresses new trends and developments that merge popular arts and Islam. Its eighteen case studies by eminent scholars cover a wide range of topics, such as lifestyle, dress, revolutionary street theater, graffiti, popular music, poetry, television drama, visual culture, and dance throughout the Muslim world from Indonesia, Africa, and the Middle East to Europe. The first comprehensive overview of this important subject, Islam and Popular Culture offers essential new ways of understanding the diverse religious discourses and pious ethics expressed in popular art productions, the cultural politics of states and movements, and the global flows of popular culture in the Muslim world.
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• Introduction: Moving In and Out of Islam (Karin van Nieuwkerk)
• Section I. Conceptualizing Religious Change
• 1. People Do Not Convert but Change: Critical Analysis of Concepts of Spiritual Transitions (William Barylo)
• 2. Moving In or Moving Toward? Reconceptualizing Conversion to Islam as a Liminal Process (Juliette Galonnier)
• 3. Understanding Religious Apostasy, Disaffiliation, and Islam in Contemporary Sweden (Daniel Enstedt)
• Section II. (De)conversion, Race, Culture, and Ethnicity)
• 4. Giving Islam a German Face (Esra OEzyurek)
• 5. Merging Culture with Religion: Trajectories of Slovak and Czech Muslim Converts since 1989 (Gabriel Piricky)
• 6. Moving into Shi'a Islam: The "Process of Subjectification" among Shi'a Women Converts in London (Yafa Shanneik)
• 7. Can a Tatar Move Out of Islam? (Katarzyna Gorak-Sosnowska and Michal Lyszczarz)
• Section III. Transnational Movement and Moving between Traditions
• 8. Religious Authority and Conversions in Berlin's Sufi Communities (Oleg Yarosh)
• 9. Deradicalization through Conversion to Traditional Islam: Hamza Yusuf's Attempt to Revive Sacred Knowledge within a North Atlantic Context (Haifaa Jawad)
• 10. Escaping the Limelight: The Politics of Opacity and the Life of a Dutch Preacher in the UK (Martijn de Koning)
• Section IV. Narratives and Experiences of Moving Out of Islam
• 11. British Muslim Converts: Comparing Conversion and Deconversion Processes To and From Islam (Mona Alyedreessy)
• 12. In the Closet: The Concealment of Apostasy among Ex-Muslims in Britain and Canada (Simon Cottee)
• 13. Religious Skepticism and Nonbelieving in Egypt (Karin van Nieuwkerk)
• 14. "God never existed, and I was looking for him like crazy!" Muslim Stories of Deconversion (Teemu Pauha and Atefeh Aghaee)
• Section V. Debating Apostasy and Deconversion
• 15. Faith No More: The Views of Lithuanian Converts to Islam on Deconversion (Egdunas Racius)
• 16. Let's Talk about Apostasy! Swedish Imams, Apostasy Debates, and Police Reports on Hate Crimes and (De)conversion (Goeran Larsson)
• Contributors Index.
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Embracing a new religion, or leaving one's faith, usually constitutes a significant milestone in a person's life. While a number of scholars have examined the reasons why people convert to Islam, few have investigated why people leave the faith and what the consequences are for doing so. Taking a holistic approach to conversion and deconversion, Moving In and Out of Islam explores the experiences of people who have come into the faith along with those who have chosen to leave it-including some individuals who have both moved into and out of Islam over the course of their lives. Sixteen empirical case studies trace the processes of moving in or out of Islam in Western and Central Europe, the United States, Canada, and the Middle East. Going beyond fixed notions of conversion or apostasy, the contributors focus on the ambiguity, doubts, and nonlinear trajectories of both moving in and out of Islam. They show how people shifting in either direction have to learn or unlearn habits and change their styles of clothing, dietary restrictions, and ways of interacting with their communities. They also look at how communities react to both converts to the religion and converts out of it, including controversies over the death penalty for apostates. The contributors cover the political aspects of conversion as well, including debates on radicalization in the era of the "war on terror" and the role of moderate Islam in conversions.
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• Introduction (Kamran Scot Aghaie and Afshin Marashi)
• Part 1. Orientalism, Modernity, and Historiography
• Chapter 1. Paradigms of Iranian Nationalism: History, Theory, and Historiography (Afshin Marashi)
• Chapter 2. Franz Babinger and the Legacy of the "German Counter- Revolution" in Early Modern Iranian Historiography (Ali Anooshahr)
• Chapter 3. The Berlin Circle: Iranian Nationalism Meets German Countermodernity (Afshin Matin-Asgari)
• Chapter 4. The Love That Dare Not Be Translated: Erasures of Premodern Sexuality in Modern Persian Mysticism (Wendy DeSouza)
• Part 2. Imagining Iran: Land, Ethnicity, and Place
• Chapter 5. Imagining Iran before Nationalism: Geocultural Meanings of Land in Azar's Atashkadeh (Mana Kia)
• Chapter 6. The Khuzistani Arab Movement, 1941-1946: A Case of Nationalism? (Brian Mann)
• Chapter 7. "The Portals of Persepolis": The Role of Nationalism in Early U.S.-Iranian Relations (Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet)
• Chapter 8. An Iranian in New York:'Abbas Mas'udi's Description of the Non-Iranian on the Eve of the Cold War (Camron Michael Amin)
• Part 3. Religion, Nationalism, and Contested Visions of Modernity
• Chapter 9. Islamic-Iranian Nationalism and Its Implications for the Study of Political Islam and Religious Nationalism (Kamran Scot Aghaie)
• Chapter 10. The Place of Islam in Interwar Iranian Nationalist Historiography (Farzin Vejdani)
• Chapter 11. Contesting Marginality: Ethnicity and the Construction of New Histories in the Islamic Republic of Iran (Touraj Atabaki)
• Chapter 12. Return of the Avant-garde to the Streets of Tehran (Talinn Grigor)
• Chapter 13. Construction of Iran's National Identity: Three Discourses (Sussan Siavoshi)
• Chapter 14. Relocating a Common Past and the Making of East-centric Modernity: Islamic and Secular Nationalism(s) in Egypt and Iran (Hanan Hammad)
• Chapter 15. "East Is East, and West Is West, and Never the Twain Shall Meet"? Post-1979 Iran and the Fragile Fiction of Israel as a Euro-American Space (Haggai Ram)
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index.
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While recent books have explored Arab and Turkish nationalism, the nuances of Iran have received scant book-length study-until now. Capturing the significant changes in approach that have shaped this specialization, Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity shares innovative research and charts new areas of analysis from an array of scholars in the field. Delving into a wide range of theoretical and conceptual perspectives, the essays-all previously unpublished-encompass social history, literary theory, postcolonial studies, and comparative analysis to address such topics as: Ethnicity in the Islamic Republic of Iran Political Islam and religious nationalism The evolution of U.S.-Iranian relations before and after the Cold War Comparing Islamic and secular nationalism(s) in Egypt and Iran The German counterrevolution and its influence on Iranian political alliances The effects of Israel's image as a Euro-American space Sufism Geocultural concepts in Azar's Atashkadeh Interdisciplinary in essence, the essays also draw from sociology, gender studies, and art and architecture. Posing compelling questions while challenging the conventional historiographical traditions, the authors (many of whom represent a new generation of Iranian studies scholars) give voice to a research approach that embraces the modern era's complexity while emphasizing Iranian nationalism's contested, multifaceted, and continuously transformative possibilities.
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• Preface A Note on Transliteration Introduction: What Is the History of Science? The History of Science and Technology The History of Islamic Science and Technology The History of Ottoman Science and Technology History Toward a History of Ottoman Scientific Experiences On Inventiveness: An Ottoman Lesson
• Chapter 1. Framing "Knowledge" in the Ottoman Empire A Eurasian Matrix: The Multiple Cultural Sources of Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Concept and Epistemology of Knowledge: The Term cIlm Classification of Knowledge in Muslim Societies Amalgamation of Bodies of Knowledge in Muslim Societies Tensions due to Fusion of Bodies of Knowledge: The Dispute regarding the Status of Pre-Islamic Sciences Mediating Mechanisms of Reception
• Chapter 2. Where and How Does Learning Take Place? Pedagogy New Educational Institutions and a New Type of Education in the Long Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 3. Transfer of Knowledge to, from, and within the Ottoman Empire Ottoman Literacy Translations and Translators among the Ottoman Elite Marginal Groups as Agents of Knowledge The Passage of Travelers and Knowledge to and from the Empire
• Chapter 4. State in Science: On Empire, Power, Infrastructures, and Finance The Patron and the Scholar: Intisap and Waqf/Vakif Science and Technology and the Ottoman State Infrastructure Science, State, and the State above It: The (Semi)Colonial Connection
• Conclusion: Ottoman Science A Teacher and a Student: Murtada al-Zabidi and cAbd al-Rahman al-Jabarti as Ottoman Scientists Ottoman Patterns of Scientific Activity Ottoman Innovation
• Notes Bibliography Index.
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Scholars have long thought that, following the Muslim Golden Age of the medieval era, the Ottoman Empire grew culturally and technologically isolated, losing interest in innovation and placing the empire on a path toward stagnation and decline. Science among the Ottomans challenges this widely accepted Western image of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ottomans as backward and impoverished. In the first book on this topic in English in over sixty years, Miri Shefer-Mossensohn contends that Ottoman society and culture created a fertile environment that fostered diverse scientific activity. She demonstrates that the Ottomans excelled in adapting the inventions of others to their own needs and improving them. For example, in 1877, the Ottoman Empire boasted the seventh-longest electric telegraph system in the world; indeed, the Ottomans were among the era's most advanced nations with regard to modern communication infrastructure. To substantiate her claims about science in the empire, Shefer-Mossensohn studies patterns of learning; state involvement in technological activities; and Turkish- and Arabic-speaking Ottomans who produced, consumed, and altered scientific practices. The results reveal Ottoman participation in science to have been a dynamic force that helped sustain the six-hundred-year empire.
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• Foreword by Randall Nadeau Acknowledgments Introduction (Ruqayya Yasmine Khan with Mashal Saif)
• Chapter 1. Muhammad and the Debates on Islam's Origins in the Digital Age (Fred M. Donner)
• Chapter 2. Muhammad the Peacemaker, Muhammad the Warrior: Visions of Islam's Prophet after 9/11 (Jonathan Brockopp)
• Chapter 3. Art History and the Contemporary Politics of Depicting Muhammad: The Case of the Danish Cartoon Controversy (Jytte Klausen)
• Chapter 4. Postmodern Politics: Manipulating Images of Islam in Contemporary Europe (Peter O'Brien)
• Chapter 5. Of Cyber Muslimahs: Wives of the Prophet and Muslim Women in the Digital Age (Ruqayya Yasmine Khan)
• Chapter 6. Behind Every Good Muslim Man: Fictional Representations of 'A'isha after 9/11 (Aysha Hidayatullah)
• Chapter 7. Muslimophobia, Racialization, and Mistaken Identity: Understanding Anti-Sikh Hate Violence in Post-9/11 America (Simran Jeet Singh)
• Chapter 8. Finding an Enemy: Islam and the New Atheism (Taner Edis) Conclusion (Ruqayya Yasmine Khan) References Contributors Index.
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The early twenty-first century has experienced an unrivaled dissemination of information and misinformation about Islam, its prophet Muhammad, and its followers, largely facilitated by the fact that the tragedy of 9/11 roughly coincided with the advent of the digital age. In the first collection of its kind, Ruqayya Khan has compiled essays that treat Muhammad and the core elements of Islam as focal points in an exploration of how the digital era-including social media and other expressions-have both had an effect on and been affected by Islam. Scholars from a variety of fields deal with topics such as the 2005 cartoon controversy in Denmark and the infamous 2012 movie trailer "Innocence of Muslims" that some believe sparked the attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, as well as how the digitization of ancient texts have allowed the origins of Islam to be studied in new ways. Other essays examine how Muhammad's wives have been represented in various online sources, including a web comic; the contrasting depictions of Muhammad as both a warrior and peacemaker; and how the widespread distribution of "the look" of Islamic terrorists has led to attacks on Sikhs, whose only point of resemblance to them may be a full beard. These findings illuminate the role of the Internet in forms of representation, advocacy, and engagement concerning Islam and Muslims in our world today.
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• Islamophobia and Western culture
• Islam and the halal food industry
• Halal slaughtering of animals : perils and practices
• Marketing piety : hijabi dolls and other toys
• Halal cosmetics and skin care : the Islamic way to beauty
• Islamic dress and the Muslim fashion industry: halal fashion
• Sportswear, lingerie, and accessories: the Islamic way.

From food products to fashions and cosmetics to children's toys, a wide range of commodities today are being marketed as "halal" (permitted, lawful) or "Islamic" to Muslim consumers both in the West and in Muslim-majority nations. However, many of these products are not authentically Islamic or halal, and their producers have not necessarily created them to honor religious practice or sentiment. Instead, most "halal" commodities are profit-driven, and they exploit the rise of a new Islamic economic paradigm, "Brand Islam, " as a clever marketing tool. Brand Islam investigates the rise of this highly lucrative marketing strategy and the resulting growth in consumer loyalty to goods and services identified as Islamic. Faegheh Shirazi explores the reasons why consumers buy Islam-branded products, including conspicuous piety or a longing to identify with a larger Muslim community, especially for those Muslims who live in Western countries, and how this phenomenon is affecting the religious, cultural, and economic lives of Muslim consumers. She demonstrates that Brand Islam has actually enabled a new type of global networking, joining product and service sectors together in a huge conglomerate that some are referring to as the Interland. A timely and original contribution to Muslim cultural studies, Brand Islam reveals how and why the growth of consumerism, global communications, and the Westernization of many Islamic countries are all driving the commercialization of Islam.
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• Foreword / Caroline Pestieau
• Introduction / Naser I. Faruqui
• Islamic sources / Naser I. Faruqui, Odeh Al-Jayyousi
• Islam and water management: overview and principles / Naser I. Faruqui
• Islamic water management and the Dublin statement / Odeh Al-Jayyousi
• Islam and the environment / Hussein A. Amery
• Water conservation through public awareness based on Islamic teachings in the Eastern Mediterranean region / Sadok Atallah, M.Z. Ali Khan, Mazen Malkawi
• Water conservation through community institutions in Pakistan: mosques and religious schools / S.M.S. Shah, M.A. Baig, A.A. Khan, H.F. Gabriel
• Water demand management in Saudi Arabia / Walid A. Abderrahman
• Sociocultural acceptability of wastewater reuse in Palestine / Nader Al Khateeb
• Water rights and water trade: an Islamic perspective / M.T. Kadouri, Y. Djebbar, M. Nehdi
• Ownership and transfer of water and land in Islam / Dante A. Caponera
• Water markets and pricing in Iran / Kazem Sadr
• Intersectoral water markets in the Middle East and North Africa / Naser I. Faruqui
• Management of shared waters: a comparison of international and Islamic law / Iyad Hussein, Odeh Al-Jayyousi.

This book presents Islamic perspectives on a number of proposed water-management policies, including water demand management, wastewater reuse, and higher tariffs. The book opens avenues for a wider dialogue amongst researchers working at identifying the most promising water management policies, adds to our knowledge of some of the influences on formal policy and informal practice, and makes these ideals available to a broader public.

• Improving community responses to industrial disasters / James K. Mitchell
• Responses to Minamata disease / Sadami Maruyama
• Environmental contamination, community transformation, and the Centralia mine fire / Stephen R. Couch
• Seveso : a paradoxical classic disaster / B. De Marchi, S. Funtowicz, and J. Ravetz
• Long-term recovery from the Bhopal crisis / Paul Shrivastava
• Iranian recovery from industrial devastation during war with Iraq / Hooshang Amirahmadi
• The Chernobyl disaster : its effect on Belarus and Ukraine / David R. Marples
• The Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska / Nancy Y. Davis
• Signposts on the road to recovery / James K. Mitchell.

This volume looks at community responses to industrial disasters that, going far beyond routine, constitute "surprise" disasters. Straining against the limits of society's capacity to adjust, these disasters are producing unprecedented consequences. This study stresses the need for long-term post-disaster assessment and the creation of information clearing-houses that focus on industrial disaster surprises. These and other proposals indicate ways that recovery systems can accomodate the lingering impacts of chronic industrial disasters and the unpredictable scientific, technical and societal changes ahead.
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• List of Figures, Plates, Charts, and Tables Foreword, by Ali S. Asani Acknowledgments Introduction: Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam, by Michael Frishkopf and Federico Spinetti Part One: Transregional
• 1. Listening to Islamic Gardens and Landscapes, by D. Fairchild Ruggles
• Part Two: The Ottoman Empire and Turkey
• 2. A Sound Status among the Ottoman Elite: Architectural Patrons of Sixteenth-Century Istanbul Mosques and Their Recitation Programs, by Nina Ergin
• 3. A Concert Platform: A Space for a Style in Turkish Music, by John Morgan O'Connell
• 4. Articulating Otherness in the Construction of Alevi-Bektasi Rituals and Ritual Space in a Transnational Perspective, by Irene Markoff
• Part Three: The Arab World
• 5. Venerating Cairo's Saints through Monument and Ritual: Islamic Reform and the Rise of the Architext, by Michael Frishkopf
• 6. Nightingales and Sweet Basil: The Cultural Geography of Aleppine Song, by Jonathan H. Shannon
• 7. Aural Geometry: Poetry, Music, and Architecture in the Arabic Tradition, by Samer Akkach
• Part Four: Andalusia and Europe
• 8. Tents of Silk and Trees of Light in the Lands of Najd: The Aural and the Visual at a Mawlid Celebration in the Alhambra, by Cynthia Robinson
• 9. Aristocratic Residences and the Majlis in Umayyad Cordoba, by Glaire D. Anderson
• 10. Sounds of Love and Hate: Sufi Rap, Ghetto Patrimony, and the Concrete Politics of the French Urban Periphery, by Paul A. Silverstein
• Part Five: Central and South Asia
• 11. Ideal Form and Meaning in Sufi Shrines of Pakistan: A Return to the Spirit, by Kamil Khan Mumtaz
• 12. The Social and Sacred Microcosm of the Kiiz UEi: Space and Sound in Rituals for the Dead among the Kazakhs of Mongolia, by Saida Daukeyeva
• Part Six: Iran
• 13. Listening to Pictures in Iran, by Anthony Welch
• 14. Of Mirrors and Frames: Music, Sound, and Architecture at the Iranian Zurkhaneh, by Federico Spinetti
• References Contributors Index.
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Tracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and contemporary times, Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam brings together domains of intellectual reflection that have rarely been in dialogue to promote a greater understanding of the centrality of sound production in constructed environments in Muslim religious and cultural expression. Representing the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology, art history, architecture, history of architecture, religious studies, and Islamic studies, the volume's contributors consider sonic performances ranging from poetry recitation to art, folk, popular, and ritual musics-as well as religious expressions that are not usually labeled as "music" from an Islamic perspective-in relation to monumental, vernacular, ephemeral, and landscape architectures; interior design; decoration and furniture; urban planning; and geography. Underscoring the intimate relationship between traditional Muslim sonic performances, such as the recitation of the Qur'an or devotional songs, and conventional Muslim architectural spaces, from mosques and Sufi shrines to historic aristocratic villas, gardens, and gymnasiums, the book reveals Islam as an ideal site for investigating the relationship between sound and architecture, which in turn proves to be an innovative and significant angle from which to explore Muslim cultures.
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