Research in the Islamic Context: Political and Methodological Reflections from South Asia, Indian Ocean, and the Arab World

1. Introduction: Don't We Really Need New Butterfly Nets? -- 2. Researching 'Muslim Worlds': Regions and Disciplines --. Postcolonialism, Islam and Area Studies -- 4. Second Thoughts About the Anthropology of Islam, or How to Make Sense of Grand Schemes in Everyday Life -- 5. Doing Ethnography in a Muslim context: Some Reflections -- 6. Conceptualising 'Thinking Class' in Islam: The Case of Popular -- 7. Researching India's Muslims: Identities, Methods, Politics -- 8. Accommodating Fieldwork to Irreconcilable Equations of Citizenship, Authoritarianism, Poverty and Fear in Egypt -- 9. Thoughts from the field: methodological considerations in the study of Islam at Jamia Millia Islamia -- 10. Ummah, Qaum and Watan: Elite and Ordinary Constructions of Nationhood among Muslims of contemporary India -- 11. Home-making at the Field: Rethinking the Categories of Ethnographic Practices -- 12. Muslim Women in Personal Law Discourse: Feminist Politics, Islam and Hindu Nationalism in India -- 13. Islamic Hermeneutics in South Asia: The Intellectual Tradition of Vakkom Moulavi -- 14. Maritime Peripheries and Universal Connections: Reflections on Studying Islam in the Indian Ocean -- 15. Purogamana Asayakkār : Progressive as a Social Category Among Muslims in Kerala -- Index.

1. Introduction: Don't We Really Need New Butterfly Nets? -- 2. Researching 'Muslim Worlds': Regions and Disciplines -- . Postcolonialism, Islam and Area Studies -- 4. Second Thoughts About the Anthropology of Islam, or How to Make Sense of Grand Schemes in Everyday Life -- 5. Doing Ethnography in a Muslim context: Some Reflections -- 6. Conceptualising 'Thinking Class' in Islam: The Case of Popular -- 7. Researching India's Muslims: Identities, Methods, Politics -- 8. Accommodating Fieldwork to Irreconcilable Equations of Citizenship, Authoritarianism, Poverty and Fear in Egypt -- 9. Thoughts from the field: methodological considerations in the study of Islam at Jamia Millia Islamia -- 10. Ummah, Qaum and Watan: Elite and Ordinary Constructions of Nationhood among Muslims of contemporary India -- 11. Home-making at the Field: Rethinking the Categories of Ethnographic Practices -- 12. Muslim Women in Personal Law Discourse: Feminist Politics, Islam and Hindu Nationalism in India -- 13. Islamic Hermeneutics in South Asia: The Intellectual Tradition of Vakkom Moulavi -- 14. Maritime Peripheries and Universal Connections: Reflections on Studying Islam in the Indian Ocean -- 15. Purogamana Asayakkār : Progressive as a Social Category Among Muslims in Kerala -- Index.