... European sociology Islamic studies private/public frontiers chronotope intercultural reflexivity ...

... narrative of modernity and sociology face significant challenges. The intimate encounters between Islam and Europe as well as between religion and secularity can only be studied through a two-way mirroring and intercultural reflexivity. This chapter demonstrates how contemporary Islamic studies can...

... Chapter 1 presents juxtaposed scenes of study and struggle in Medina by the Bay from the 1950s to present-day to consider how Islamic knowledge practices informed and transformed selves and social relations. These scenes are not an exhaustive history; rather, they are demographic, geographic...

... Secularism is not approached only from the Western perspective, but debated in relation to different experiences. This chapter introduces the theoretical frame in studying different historical trajectories and cultural habitations of the secular. Comparison between Turkish laiklik and French...

... As an expert witness Jonathan Benthall was confronted with a radical impasse of public ethnography. Having studied Islamic charities in the West Bank, he was called to testify in a U.S. court case in which the defendant was accused of using humanitarian assistance for terrorist activities...

... The subject Unni Wikan deals with exposes those who study it to difficult ordeals: the relationships between Muslim migrants and their European host communities. She experienced this peril with two of her books, which generated fierce criticisms: one contested the widely celebrated success...

... This chapter examines domestic workers’ housetalk: how their emergent practice of Islam develops through their relations and work within Kuwaiti households. Households constitute spaces of everyday activities and interactions through which domestic workers come to develop Islamic sensibilities...

... To learn more about Islam, many domestic workers obtain learning materials and take classes at Kuwait’s Islamic da’wa movement’s women’s center. Taught in their first languages, by teachers of similar ethnonational backgrounds, these classes effectively reproduce domestic workers’ ethnonational...

... The introduction describes the conceptualization of “Medina by the Bay” as a social geography, infrastructure, and analytic frame, drawing on the significance of Medina as a site of refuge and an emergent new society in Islamic history. In the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout Islamic...

... This chapter presents the phenomenon of South Asian migrant domestic workers’ Islamic conversion in the Gulf region, the major explanations often given to account for them, and the alternative explanation of “everyday conversions” discussed in the book. Understanding the circumstances through...

...Islamic Fundamentalism ...

... Islamic da’wa cosmopolitanism fitra religious conversion transnational migration ...

... religious conversion Islamic ethical formation affective labor households domestic work ...

... Islam domestic work transnational migration Kuwait / Arabian Peninsula / Persian Gulf (Middle East) households ...

... the historical emergence of race as a discursive construct with material ramifications impacted Islamic thought, theology, and practice. Through an attention to the blues adhan and an epistemology for the next this chapter considers how liberation theories and theologies come together and apart in Medina...

... Chapter 2 expands space and time to show the transformative process and effect of Medina by the Bay at a global scale. It examines the ethical and political implications of Medina by the Bay, how affinities are formed through an Islamic kinship of faith, embodied relations, spiritual...