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Charles Hirschkind. The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics. 288 pages, ISBN: 978-0-231-13819-2. First published in 2006, the ending paragraph of Charles Hirschkind’s…
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Leisurely Islam seeks to offer a different perspective on youth culture in the Middle East. In their book on the burgeoning café culture of…
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Charles Hirschkind. The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics. 288 pages, ISBN: 978-0-231-13819-2. Hirschkind’s The Ethical Soundscape, which traces the use and spread…
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This review on Food and Identity in the Caribbean is the first in a line of reviews from our „food“-list, curated by our review…
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This post represents the third and final installment of our special review section on Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop, Islamic Civilization and Muslim…
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This post represents the second installment of our special review section on Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop, Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks Series. First…
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This post represents the third installment of our special review section on Capital in the Twenty-First Century. First and second installments available here and…
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Miriam Cooke and Bruce B. Lawrence, eds: Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop, Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks Series (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of…
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This post represents the second installment of our special review section on Capital in the Twenty-First Century. First and third installments available here and…
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This post represents the first installment of our special review section on Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Second and third installments available here and…
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Can Islam Be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State. By John B. Bowen, 2010, Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691152493 The…
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We recently featured a review on the ‘Anthropology of the State’ with Madeleine Reeves’s new publication on Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State…
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