Dimensions of Locality

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...

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description 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-285122025-07-21T15:58:34Z Dimensions of Locality Stauth, Georg Schielke, Samuli Modern Islam Islamic Shrines Egypt Ethiopia South-East Asia Burkina Faso Islam Space Islamic Studies Sociology of Religion Religious Studies Sociology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam 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. 2021-02-10T13:24:42Z 2021-02-10T13:24:42Z 2020-02-11 03:00:29 2020-04-01T06:52:31Z 2008 book 1007622 OCN: 1013964227 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22534 9783899429688 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28512 eng Globaler lokaler Islam open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22534/1/1007622.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22534/1/1007622.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22534/1/1007622.pdf transcript Verlag 10.14361/9783839409688 10.14361/9783839409688 7e97f9b9-be2b-4d9c-a928-3c8ebdfa443c 9783899429688 192 Bielefeld open access
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Islamic Shrines
Egypt
Ethiopia
South-East Asia
Burkina Faso
Islam
Space
Islamic Studies
Sociology of Religion
Religious Studies
Sociology
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thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam
Dimensions of Locality
title Dimensions of Locality
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title_short Dimensions of Locality
title_sort dimensions of locality
topic Modern Islam
Islamic Shrines
Egypt
Ethiopia
South-East Asia
Burkina Faso
Islam
Space
Islamic Studies
Sociology of Religion
Religious Studies
Sociology
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam
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Islamic Shrines
Egypt
Ethiopia
South-East Asia
Burkina Faso
Islam
Space
Islamic Studies
Sociology of Religion
Religious Studies
Sociology
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam
url 1007622