Ways of Knowing Muslim Cultures and Societies

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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. 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