Politicizing Islam: The Islamic Revival in France and India

ISBN-13: 9780190225247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str.

Z. Fareen Parvez

Opis

Home to the largest Muslim minorities in Western Europe and Asia, France and India are both grappling with crises of secularism. In Politicizing Islam, Fareen Parvez offers an in-depth look at how Muslims have responded to these crises, focusing on Islamic revival movements in the French city of Lyon and the Indian city of Hyderabad. Presenting a novel comparative view of middle-class and poor Muslims in both cities, Parvez illuminates how Muslims from every social class are denigrated but struggle in different ways to improve their lives and make claims on the state. In Hyderabad's slums, Muslims have created vibrant political communities, while in Lyon's banlieues they have retreated into the private sphere. Politicizing Islam elegantly explains how these divergent reactions originated in India's flexible secularism and France's militant secularism and in specific patterns of Muslim class relations in both cities. This fine-grained ethnography pushes beyond stereotypes and has consequences for burning public debates over Islam, feminism, and secular democracy.

Recenzje

In Politicizing Islam, Parvez has produced a superb, multidimensional account of the ways that state models of secularism, together with community specific relations of class, inform the aims, tactics, and orientations to state power of Islamic revival movements. ... Sociologists of religion, gender, race and nation, as well as those interested in further unpacking the relationship of social and political movements to the state, will find much to engage with in this work.

O autorze

Z. Fareen Parvez is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.