Ways of Knowing Muslim Cultures and Societies : Studies in Honour of Gudrun Krämer.

Intro -- Ways of Knowing Muslim Cultures and Societies: Studies in Honour of Gudrun Krämer -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editors' Preface: Ways of Knowing Muslim Cultures and Societies -- The Underneath of Academic Life: Gudrun Krämer and Islamic Studies Today -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Tabula Gratulatoria -- Bibliography Gudrun Krämer -- Primary Supervision of Doctoral Theses by Gudrun Krämer at Freie Universität Berlin -- Part 1: Islamic Studies Inside Out -- 1 Between Europe and Asia: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Imperial Russia -- 2 Kairo 1869 - Eine historische Collage -- Part 2: Empires, Corporations, and Nations -- 3 Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā's Reformist Project to Establish a True Caliphate: Prospects and Challenges -- 4 Ottoman Corporatism, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries: Beyond the State-Society Paradigm in Middle Eastern History -- 5 Family Portraits: Visual Sources for a Social History of the Late Ottoman Empire -- 6 The Position of Philosophy in the Late Ottoman Educational Reforms -- Part 3: Islam, Ethics, and Languages -- 7 Pratique religieuse et comportement moral -- 8 The Emerging Field of Ethics in the Context of Modern Egypt -- 9 Religion as Discourse: Conversion and Commitment to Jihād in South Africa -- Part 4: Media Perspectives and Material Approaches -- 10 From the Pocketbook to Facebook: Maktabat Wahba, Publishing, and Political Ideas in Cairo since the 1940s -- 11 Reading between the Lines: Arabic Script, Islamic Calligraphy, and the Question of Legibility -- 12 Dimensions of "Giving Voice:" Discursive Agency and Intellectual Practice on Swahili Islamic Radio, in Mombasa 2005-2006 -- 13 Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi, His Successors, and the Qurʾān -- Part 5: The Politics of Body and Gender -- 14 #ItsMensTurn: Of Hashtags and Shīʿī Discourses in Iran.

15 Contested Genderscapes: Islamic Languages of Women's Rights in the Arab Region -- 16 On Coming to Grips with Turkish Oil Wrestling: Conceptualising Muscular Islam and Islamic Martial Arts -- Part 6: Dominant Minorities and Dominant Majorities -- 17 Domination, Resilience, and Power: Religious Minorities in the Imperial and Post-Imperial Middle East -- 18 Carving Out a Space for Equal Political Citizenship? Muslim Politics of Remembrance in Uganda -- Part 7: Arab Revolutions and Their Impact on Research about the Middle East -- 19 Understanding Transformation, Elite Change, and New Social Mobilisation in the Arab World: An Actor-Centred and Policy-Oriented Research Project -- 20 Understanding Politics in Egypt "From Below -- Part 8: Muslims Inside Out -- 21 Recognition and its Traps in Liberal Secular Conditions: The Case of Muslims in Europe -- 22 The Refugee and the Dog -- Index.

This volume showcases a variety of innovative approaches to the study of Muslim societies and cultures, inspired by and honouring Gudrun Krämer and her role in transforming the landscape of Islamic Studies.

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