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Dimensions of Locality: Muslim Saints, their Place and Space
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Abstract As a world religion Islam is based on a highly abstract and absolute notion of the transcendent, which its followers establish and celebrate - in a seemingly contradictory fashion - at very specific sites: Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and the vast and complex landscapes of mosques and Muslim saints' sh... view more
As a world religion Islam is based on a highly abstract and absolute notion of the transcendent, which its followers establish and celebrate - in a seemingly contradictory fashion - at very specific sites: Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and the vast and complex landscapes of mosques and Muslim saints' shrines around the world. Sacred locality has thus become a paradigm for the relationship between the human and the transcendent, a model for urban planning, regional networks, imaginary spaces, and spiritual hierarchies alike. This importance of saintly places has, however, become increasingly complicated and troubled by reformist currents within Islam, on the one hand, and the emergence of modern archeology and anthropology, on the other. While they have often tended to posit 'the local' in opposition to 'the universal', in this volume islamologists, anthropologists, and sociologists offer new ways of thinking about the local, the place, and the conceptual landscapes and spaces of saints. In this, its eighth volume, the Yearbook for the Sociology of Islam looks at different sites and regions around the Muslim world (notably Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Southeast Asia) not as 'localized' versions of a universal Islam, but as constitutive of one particular outlook of the universalizing order of a world religion.... view less
Keywords
Islam; religion; ritual; spirituality; religiousness; Burkina Faso; Egypt; Ethiopia; Africa; Southeast Asia
Classification
Sociology of Religion
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Free Keywords
Islamic Shrines; Islamic Studies; Modern Islam; Religious Studies; Space
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
190 p.
Series
Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam, 8
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839409688
ISBN
978-3-8394-0968-8
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0