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Producing Islamic Knowledge: Transmission and Dissemination in Western Europe
ISBN-13: 9780415355926 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 196 str.
How do Muslims in Europe acquire discursive and practical knowledge of Islam? How are conceptions of Islamic beliefs, values and practices transmitted and how do they change? Who are the authorities on these issues that Muslims listen to? How do new Muslim discourses emerge in response to the European context? This book addresses the broader question of how Islamic knowledge (defined as what Muslims hold to be correct Islamic beliefs and practices) is being produced and reproduced in West European contexts by looking at specific settings, institutions and religious authorities. Chapters examine in depth four key areas relating to the production and reproduction of Islamic knowledge:
- authoritative answers in response to explicit questions in the form of fatwas.
- the mosque and mosque association as the setting of much formal and informal transmission of Islamic knowledge.
- the role of Muslim intellectuals in articulating alternative Muslim discourses.
- higher Islamic education in Europe and the training of imams and other religious functionaries.
How do Muslims in Europe acquire discursive and practical knowledge of Islam? How are conceptions of Islamic beliefs, values and practices transmitted and how do they change? Who are the authorities on these issues that Muslims listen to? How do new Muslim discourses emerge in response to the European context?
This book provides a comprehensive discussion of these deceptively simple questions about Islam and Muslims in Europe. Four key areas where the production and/or reproduction of Islamic knowledge take place are singled out for in-depth treatment. The first of these concerns fatwas, authoritative answers in response to explicit questions. The second area is the setting of much formal and informal transmission of Islamic knowledge, the mosque and mosque association. Third is the role of Muslim intellectuals in articulating alternative Muslim discourses. The final area is that of higher Islamic education in Europe, the institutions in which imams and other religious functionaries are trained.
Featuring contributions from leading sociologists and anthropologists, the book presents the findings of empirical research in these issues from a range of European countries such as France, Italy, the Netherlands and Great Britain.
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