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<p>Notes on Contributors vii</p> <p><b>1 <i>Benjamin Soares & Filippo Osella</i> Islam, politics, anthropology 1</b></p> <p><b>2 <i>Samuli Schielke</i> Being good in Ramadan: ambivalence, fragmentation, and the moral self in the lives of young Egyptians 23</b></p> <p><b>3 <i>Hatsuki Aishima & Armando Salvatore</i> Doubt, faith, and knowledge: the reconfiguration of the intellectual field in post-Nasserist Cairo 39</b></p> <p><b>4 <i>Magnus Marsden</i> A tour not so grand: mobile Muslims in northern Pakistan 54</b></p> <p><b>5 <i>Kai Kresse</i> Muslim politics in postcolonial Kenya: negotiating knowledge on the double-periphery 72</b></p> <p><b>6 <i>Rosa De Jorio</i> Between dialogue and contestation: gender, Islam, and the challenges of a Malian public sphere 91</b></p> <p><b>7 <i>Lara Deeb</i> Piety politics and the role of a transnational feminist analysis 107</b></p> <p><b>8 <i>Julie McBrien</i> Mukadas’s struggle: veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan 121</b></p> <p><b>9 <i>Irfan Ahmad</i> Genealogy of the Islamic state: reflections on Maududi’s political thought and Islamism 138</b></p> <p><b>10 <i>Maimuna Huq</i> Talking jihad and piety: reformist exertions among Islamist women in Bangladesh 156</b></p> <p><b>11 <i>Daromir Rudnyckyj</i> Market Islam in Indonesia 175</b></p> <p><b>12 <i>Filippo Osella & Caroline Osella</i> Muslim entrepreneurs in public life between India and the Gulf: making good and doing good 194</b></p> <p><b>13 <i>Gregory Starrett</i> Islam and the politics of enchantment 213</b></p> <p>Index 231</p>

<b>Filippo Osella</b> is a Reader in Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. For the past 20 years, Osella has conducted research in South India, and more recently in a number of West Asian Gulf countries. His current research focuses on the emergence of Islamic reformist movements and the rise of a new Muslim middle class in Kerala. <p><b>Benjamin Soares</b> is an anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Afrika-Studiecentrum in Leiden, The Netherlands. Soares' publications include <i>Islam and the Prayer Economy</i> (2005) and two edited volumes, <i>Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa</i> (2007) and <i>Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa</i> (2006).</p>

Anthropology has enjoyed a lengthy - and at times problematic - engagement with Islam and Muslim societies. <i>Islam, Politics, Anthropology</i> offers critical reflections on past and current studies of Islam and politics in anthropology and charts new analytical approaches to examining Islam in the highly charged atmosphere of the post-9/11 world. Working with an intentionally broad understanding of politics, the volume considers not just the state, formal politics, and organizations, but also everyday politics and micropolitics - arenas where anthropology is especially adept at analysis. Essays explore contemporary ways of being Muslim and the complex politics of Muslim self-fashioning, and consider current debates about religious practice and ethics, the nature of the state, citizenship, and Muslims’ efforts to simply get by in the current historical conjuncture. Challenging formalist models of political participation in the social sciences, widespread assumptions about Muslim exceptionalism, and the recent so-called 'ethical turn,' the volume highlights the complexities, contingencies, and contradictions in the political engagements of contemporary Muslims in a variety of locales in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North America. Provocative and timely, <i>Islam, Politics, Anthropology</i> represents a valuable contribution to understanding the place of Islam in the 21st century world.

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