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The volume is organized in terms of texts, groups, practices, places, and others. An attempt has been made to discuss the wide range of Muslim ritual and practice and provide a sound guide to this significant aspect of the religious life of one of the largest groups of believers in the world today.
List of contents
Introduction
Oliver Leaman TEXTS 1: The Qur'an: Ritual, Practice, Embodiment and Culture
Natana J. DeLong-Bas 2: Hadith
Mansur Ali GROUPS 3: The Hanafis
Hamza Dudgeon 4: The Hanbalis: the Later-Generation and the development of the mu'tamad opinions
Jewel Jalil and Saud al-Sarhan 5: Malikis
Delfina Serrano-Ruano 6: Salafi Ritual Law and Practice
Richard Gauvain 7: The Shafi¿is
Nuha Alshaar 8: Shi'i Rituals and Practices
Liyakat Takim 9: The Ismailis: History, Doctrines and Ritual Practices
Shiraz Kabani 10: Ibadis
Adam Gaiser 11: Ritual Practices among the ¿Alawis, the Druze, the Ahmadis, and Black Muslims
Fachrizal Halim 12: Sufis: Invoking God's name and the Practice of Dhikr
Raid al-Daghistani 13: Returning to God: Constructing Agency Through the Practice of Dhikr in Sufi Islam
Feyza Akova PRACTICES 14: Prayer
Stephen Burge 15: Language, Ritual and non-Ritual Prayer: Salat and Do'a
Niloofar Haeri 16: Qur'an Recital
Lauren Osborn 17: Ramadan
Herman Beck 18: Mawlid
Andrea Stanton 19: Circumcision
Shazia Moosa, Mahnoor Nawab, Hira Zuberi, Lubna Samad 20: Halal Slaughter
John Lever and Awal Fuseini 21: Tahara
Serdar Kurnaz 22: The Social Dynamics of Khul¿: The Experience of German Muslims
Mahmoud Jaraba 23: Islamic Fashion
Heather Akou 24: Young adults: Fueling Young Muslim Adults' Religiosity by Connecting Islamic Beliefs and Practices across their Development
Mona Abo-Zena and Abdul-Malik Merchant PLACES 25: Sacred space
Simon O'Meara 26: Sacred spaces: adaptation and early Islam
Essam Ayyad 27: Twelver Shi'a Pilgrimage - Ziyara
Ingvild Flaskerud 28:
Ziyara (¿Alawi Ritual and Practice)
Amelia Gallagher 29: The Qibla: Ritual Orientation in the Formation of Islamic Collective Identity
Ari Gordon OTHERS 30: Animals as Agents? A Qur'anic View
Asmaa El Maaroufi 31: Heresy or Moral Imperative? Islamic Perspectives on Veganism
Zinnira Shaikh 32: "Islamic reformism": colonial influence on Muslim intellectual practice
Mohamed Amine Brahimi 33: Qur'an, Rituals and Muslim Memory of Jews
Mehnaz M. Afridi 34: Muslim attitudes to Christian ritual and practice
Clinton Bennett 35: Interfaith Practices
Elizabeth Becker 36: Ritual, Embodiment and Creativity in the Muslim Diaspora: Transnational Migrations and Symbolic Returns
Pnina Werbner 37: The Secular World
Ufuk Topkara 38: Rituals, equality, and difference
Oliver Leaman Index
About the author
Oliver Leaman writes on philosophy and religion, and his latest book is
Islam and Morality, 2019.
Summary
The volume is organized in terms of texts, groups, practices, places, and others. An attempt has been made to discuss the wide range of Muslim ritual and practice and provide a sound guide to this significant aspect of the religious life of one of the largest groups of believers in the world today.
