...Ovamir Anjum © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Islam as a Discursive Tradition: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors variorum Ovamir Anjum...

...Fadi A. Bardawil “The Solitary Analyst of Doxas: An Interview with Talal Asad” explores Asad's intellectual trajectory. In Bardawil and Asad's intergenerational conversation Asad discusses his critique of the neutrality of the social sciences, his own critique of Orientalist scholarship (while...

...Susanna Ferguson Ferguson reads a 2009–11 debate over the proposed reissue of Syria's Personal Status Code in the Syrian feminist journal al-Thara to highlight the role women's rights discourse plays in disciplining and producing political subjects. She draws on Talal Asad's observation...

... Jean-Loup Sibeud Emmanuelle , eds. Maurice Delafosse: Entre orientalisme et ethnographie: l’itinéraire d’un africaniste (1870–1926) . Paris : Maisonneuve et Larose , 1998 . Asad Talal . Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity . Stanford, CA : Stanford...

... on original insights of Marcel Mauss, Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, and psychoanalytic and phenomenological discourses in their approach to the body and the psyche. The work of Talal Asad ( Genealogies of Religion , Formations of the Secular ) , William Hanks ( Converting Words ) , Charles Hirschkind...

... with nated mainly by the Directorate of Religious Af- the help of the Diyanet. Therefore, this article 6. Talal Asad argues against a transcultural and trans­ 7. Alev Çınar, “Subversion and Subjugation in the Pub- 9. According to article 35 of the Internal Service Reg- historical conception...

... that cites the political stakes of Edward W. Said's Orientalism 4 (107n257); a brief acknowledgment by the end of the book that colonialism—which appears in passing a handful of times—upended the “Balkans-to-Bengal complex” paradigm that Ahmed recovers (524); and, in a discussion of Talal Asad's...

... A. Bardawil’s interview with anthro- pologist Talal Asad sheds new light on Asad’s long career. Bardawil returns to some of Asad’s early work, including his Essays in Sudan Ethnography, to encourage Asad to reflect on his intellectual trajec...

... in general and the Mediterranean in particular. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 References el-Ariss Tarek . Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political . New York : Fordham University Press , 2013 . Asad Talal , ed. Anthropology and the Colonial...

..., not doxis a sense that Islam, in con­trast to Chris­tian­ity, relates more to how one lives than to what one believes, as Talal Asad has influ­en­tially maintained.3 Troubling this split between prac­tice and belief, the essays in this spe­cial sec­tion approach the­olo­ gy as an ethn­ og­ raphi­­cally...

... whom Ahmed greatly admirers but targets for criticism. What might be the political implications of his criticism of this thinker? Here I have in mind the group of readers who will be most critical of the book—that is, those inspired by the anthropologist Talal Asad. Their criticisms will arise, in part...

... beyond the machina- dorsement of the pacifying e ects of the public tions of neocolonial ideology. realm, Weber focuses on Talal Asad’s critique of In “Seductive Piety: Faith and Fashion...

..., of embracing pain and martyrdom, should be examined as a disciplinary act performed within a discursive space. As I show later, and following Talal Asad, acts performed as part of discursive tradition do not focus on meaning but “on the behavioral customs and the sensibilities they teach and regulate...

... and the institutions it has 39. See Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular: Christi- 42. For a collection of essays discussing the invention  44. For different approaches that address the pres- anity, Islam, Modernity (Stanford, CA: Stanford Uni- of religion in different societies, see Derek Peterson  ent hollow...

..., introduction to Is Critique Secu- tions- , Integrations- und Minderheitenpolitik (Immi- 7.  See Alev Çınar, “Subversion and Subjugation in  lar? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech, by Talal Asad,  gration under the Sign of Globalization: Migration, the Public Sphere: Secularism and the Islamic Head- Wendy...

... that would include even “idolatry” as an Islamic practice! (28). To establish the Islamicity of the truth that contradicts the truth of the Islamic text, Ahmed finds a source of Islamic truth that is not the text. Unlike Talal Asad, who begins from the text (Qur'an and Sunnah), Ahmed begins from the “Unseen...

... vols . Dhaka : ASK , 2001–10 . ———. “Report of the Investigations Unit on Case # 12/9, Debidar Thana.” June 28 , 2009 . Copy on file with author . Asad Talal . Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Modernity and Islam . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2003...

... significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical developments . . . but also because of their systematic structure.” Schmitt, Political Theology , 36 . 3. See Arendt, “Tradition and the Modern Age.” Talal Asad...

... Qayyam al-Din Muhammad . al-‘Amal al-Maghfur fi Ziyarat al-Qubur (A Work Forgiven on the Visitation of Tombs) . Lakhnau : Matba‘ Isha‘at al-‘Ulum , 1926 . Asad Talal . “ The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam .” Washington, DC : Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies...

... , October 27 , 2012 . www.elwatannews.com/news/details/67747 . Bangstad Sindre . “Contesting Secularism/s: Secularism and Islam in the Work of Talal Asad.” Anthropological Theory 9 , no. 2 ( 2009 ): 188 – 208 . Bayoumi Alaa . “Lack of Unity Stalls Egypt's Youth Revolution...