Filippo Osella & Benjamin Soares 
Islam, Politics, Anthropology [PDF ebook] 

Notes on Contributors vii
1 Benjamin Soares & Filippo Osella Islam, politics, anthropology 1
2 Samuli Schielke Being good in Ramadan: ambivalence, fragmentation, and the moral self in the lives of young Egyptians 23
3 Hatsuki Aishima & Armando Salvatore Doubt, faith, and knowledge: the reconfiguration of the intellectual field in post-Nasserist Cairo 39
4 Magnus Marsden A tour not so grand: mobile Muslims in northern Pakistan 54
5 Kai Kresse Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya: negotiating knowledge on the double-periphery 72
6 Rosa De Jorio Between dialogue and contestation: gender, Islam, and the challenges of a Malian public sphere 91
7 Lara Deeb Piety politics and the role of a transnational feminist analysis 107
8 Julie Mc Brien Mukadas’s struggle: veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan 121
9 Irfan Ahmad Genealogy of the Islamic state: reflections on Maududi’s political thought and Islamism 138
10 Maimuna Huq Talking jihad and piety: reformist exertions among Islamist women in Bangladesh 156
11 Daromir Rudnyckyj Market Islam in Indonesia 175
12 Filippo Osella & Caroline Osella Muslim entrepreneurs in public life between India and the Gulf: making good and doing good 194
13 Gregory Starrett Islam and the politics of enchantment 213
Index 231

Filippo Osella is a Reader in Anthropology at the University
of Sussex, UK. For the past 20 years, Osella has conducted research
in South India, and more recently in a number of West Asian Gulf
countries. His current research focuses on the emergence of Islamic
reformist movements and the rise of a new Muslim middle class in
Kerala.
Benjamin Soares is an anthropologist and Senior Research
Fellow at the Afrika-Studiecentrum in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Soares’ publications include Islam and the Prayer Economy
(2005) and two edited volumes, Islam and Muslim Politics in
Africa (2007) and Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa
(2006).