Islam(s) in context: Orientalism and the anthropology of Muslim societies and cultures
McLoughlin, SM · White Rose Research Online
This article begins to fill a gap in recent discussions of the future of Islamic studies with an account of the nature and significance of Anthropological and Ethnographic contributions to the study of Islam and Muslims. Drawing attention to both the problem of essence in Orientalism and the dissolution of Islam’s significance for Muslims in Said’s (1978) an…