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Cover -- Author bio -- Endorsement -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1. Al-Azhar Reforms and the Transformation of Islamic Learning -- 2. From European Suits to Azharite Garb -- 3. Cultivating a Market for Sufism -- 4. Between 'Public' Islam and 'Private' Sufism -- 5. The Aesthetics of Hadith Narration -- 6. Being a Credible Scholar -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The study of the Islamic Resurgence has underestimated the intellectual trials that some key personalities underwent at a crucial stage of the crisis of post‐colonial societies. The intellectual leaders of the Resurgence faced the task to redefine the social value of faith and of its converse, doubt, as the insidious flip‐side of processes of modernization. Their response to the challenge contributed to a reconfiguration of the intellectual field: in order to reach larger audiences they reinterpreted their cultural credentials and even life narratives in terms of the communicative standards suitable to new media. This paper analyses how the motives of doubt and faith in the trajectories of two personalities aspiring to the status of 'Islamic intellectual' (the Sufi scholar and Shaykh al‐Azhar 'Abd al‐Halim Mahmud and the media‐savvy lay thinker Mustafa Mahmud) contributed to a reconfiguration of the intellectual field. We investigate how their legacy is presently discussed among educated audiences. Finally, we show how the ambivalence of the reception of their public teaching reflects the troubled search for a new ideological balance by the Egyptian middle classes.RésuméL'étude de la Résurgence islamique a sous‐estimé les épreuves intellectuelles par laquelle sont passés certains de ses grands noms à un stade crucial de la crise des sociétés postcoloniales. Les meneurs intellectuels de la Résurgence se sont trouvés confrontés à la tâche de redéfinir la valeur sociale de la foi et de son opposé, le doute, comme le revers insidieux des processus de modernisation. En relevant ce défi, ils ont contribuéà reconfigurer le champ intellectuel : pour atteindre un public plus large, ils ont réinterprété leurs références culturelles et même leurs récits de vies selon les standards de communication adaptés aux nouveaux médias. Les auteurs analysent ici la façon dont les motifs du doute et de la foi dans la trajectoire de deux personnalités aspirant au statut « d'intellectuel islamique », l'érudit soufi Shaykh al‐Azhar 'Abd al‐Halim Mahmud et le penseur laïque Mustafa Mahmud, fin connaisseur des média, ont contribuéà la reconfiguration du champ intellectuel. Les auteurs étudient le débat dont leur héritage fait aujourd'hui l'objet dans les cercles éduqués. Pour finir, ils montrent comment l'ambivalence de l'accueil fait à leur enseignement public reflète la difficile recherche d'un équilibre idéologique dans les classes moyennes égyptiennes.

In recent years, crucial questions have been raised about anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. These interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane. Six anthropologists with field experience in Egypt, Greece, India, Laos, Mauritius, Thailand and Switzerland critically discuss these propositions in order to renew anthropology for the future. The volume concludes with an Afterword from Tim Ingold

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Performing Rituals -- Chapter 1 Black Magic, Divination and Remedial Reproductive Agency in Northern Pakistan -- Chapter 2 Preparing for the Hajj in Contemporary Tunisia: Between Religious and Administrative Ritual -- Chapter 3 "There Used To Be Terrible Disbelief ": Mourning and Social Change in Northern Syria -- Chapter 4 Manifestations of Ashura Among Young British Shi 'is -- Chapter 5 The Ma'ruf: An Ethnography of Ritual (South Algeria) -- Chapter 6 The Sufi Ritual of the Darb al-shish and the Ethnography of Religious Experience -- Chapter 7 Preaching for Converts: Knowledge and Power in the Sunni Community in Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 8 Worshipping the Martyr President: The Darih of Rafiq Hariri in Beirut -- Chapter 9 Staging the Authority of the Ulama: The Celebration of the Mawlid in Urban Syria -- Part Two. Contextualising Interactions -- Chapter 10 The Salafi and the Others: An Ethnography of Intracommunal Relations in French Islam -- Chapter 11 Describing Religious Practices among University Students: A Case Study from the University of Jordan, Amman -- Chapter 12 Referring to Islam in Mutual Teasing: Notes on an Encounter between Two Tanzanian Revivalists -- Chapter 13 Salafis as Shaykhs: Othering the Pious in Cairo -- Chapter 14 Ethics of Care, Politics of Solidarity: Islamic Charitable Organisations in Turkey -- Chapter 15 Making Shari'a Alive: Court Practice under an Ethnographic Lens -- Chapter 16 Referring to Islam as a Practice: Audiences, Relevancies and Language Games within the Egyptian Parliament -- Chapter 17 Contesting Public Images of 'Abd al-Halim Mahmud (1910-78): Who is an Authentic Scholar? -- Part Three. The Ethnography of History -- Chapter 18 Possessed of Documents: Hybrid Laws and Translated Texts in the Hadhrami Diaspora -- About the Contributors -- Index