Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1 Muslim Diversity: Local Islam in Global Contexts; 2 Global Migrants and Local Shrines:The Shifting Geography of Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh; 3 The Theological Construction of Conflict: Gilgit, Northern Pakistan; 4 Jihād in West Africa: A Global Theme in a Regional Setting; 5 The Salafiyya Movement in Northwest China: Islamic Fundamentalism among the Muslim Chinese?; 6 To Colour, Not Oppose: Spreading Islam in Rural Java; 7 Faith and Identity in Northeast Syria
8 The Mosque and the Sacred Mountain: Duality of Religious Beliefs among the Zaghawa of Northwestern Sudan9 On Becoming Muslim: The Construction of Identities among the Lafofa of the Sudan; 10 Afterword: The Comparative Study of Muslim Societies; Index
Summary
The term 'local Islam' has been coined to describe local responses to the effects of globalisation in the Islamic world. All contributions to this volume present cases of 'local Islam' as well as discussing the term itself. But what all of this group of anthropologists and historians convey is a feeling of dissatisfaction with the very term. Their uneasiness relates to the conceptual problems arising from seeing Islam as either local or global. Rather, the authors argue in favour of a focus not on Islam but on the lives of Muslims, putting their lives into the context of complex historical
