Making Islam Work

Preface and Acknowledgement

Notes on Transliteration

Introduction

 1 Islamic Authority: Themes, Stakes, and Foci

 2 Assessing Islamic Authority

 3 Islamic Authority-Making: Processes, Actors, and Contexts

 4 Chapters and Cases

1 The Religious Broker: Networks, Reciprocity, and Intermediary Power

 1 Introduction

 2 What Is a Religious Broker?

 3 Religious Brokerage in the City of Rotterdam. A Historical Case

 4 The Emergence of Religious Brokers

 5 The Dissolution of Religious Brokers

 6 Conclusions

2 The Politics of Imam Training: The Domestication of Islam in Europe

 1 Introduction

 2 The Quest for Imams

 3 Training Initiatives in Europe

 4 Assessing Imam Training in Europe: What Is at Stake?

 5 The Politics of Imam Training: Conclusions

3 Authoritative Pedagogics: The Sohbet

 1 Introduction

 2 Hizmet

 3 Sohbet as ‘Sensational Form’ and a Site of Devotional Practice

 4 Sohbet in Practice

 5 Hizmet as a ‘Way of Life’

 6 Gender

 7 Conclusions

4 Alternative Authorities: Authority-Making from Below

 1 Introduction

 2 Authority-Making from Below, Ethics, Senses of Space and the Production of Locality

 3 Cases

 4 Conclusions

5 Seeking Authentic Listening Experiences in Shi’ism: Online and Offline Intersections of Majlis Practices

 Aleeha Zahra Ali and Thijl Sunier

 1 Introduction

 2 Shi’a Muslims, Mobility and Story of Karbala

 3 Majlis: Sermon and Ritual

 4 Theorising the Majlis

 5 Digitisation and Shi’ism

 6 Authority and Authentication

 7 Transnational Authority

 8 Listening as a Practice of Authentication

 9 Who Sits at the Minbar? Ulama, Zakirin, Public Speakers

 10 The Scholar and the Listeners: Case Study

 11 Conclusions

6 Branding Islam: Imagination and Claims-Making

 1 Introduction

 2 Cases

 3 Conclusions

Conclusions

 1 Reprise

 2 Cross-Overs, Connections, Entanglements, and Conceptual Threads

 3 Reflections

 4 What Else?

Glossary

References

Index