{"product_id":"the-sociology-of-islam-isbn-9781119109976","title":"The Sociology of Islam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sociology of Islam\u003c\/i\u003e provides an accessible introduction to this emerging field of inquiry, teaching and debate. The study is located at the crucial intersection between a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. It discusses the long-term dynamics of Islam as both a religion and as a social, political and cultural force.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume focuses on ideas of knowledge, power and civility to provide students and readers with analytic and critical thinking frameworks for understanding the complex social facets of Islamic traditions and institutions. The study of the sociology of Islam improves the understanding of Islam as a diverse force that drives a variety of social and political arrangements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDelving into both conceptual questions and historical interpretations, \u003ci\u003eThe Sociology of Islam\u003c\/i\u003e is a transdisciplinary, comparative resource for students, scholars, and policy makers seeking to understand Islam’s complex changes throughout history and its impact on the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKnowledge and Power in the Sociology of Islam 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKnowledge\/Charisma vs. Power\/Wealth: The Challenge of Religious Movements 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCivility as the Engine of the Knowledge–Power Equation: Islam and ‘Islamdom’ 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Patterns of Civility\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Limits of Civil Society and the Path to Civility 43\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origins of Modern Civil Society 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCivil Society as a Site of Production of Modern Power 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFolding Civil Society into a Transversal Notion of Civility 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Brotherhood as a Matrix of Civility: The Islamic Ecumene and Beyond 73\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBetween Networking, ‘Charisma,’ and Social Autonomy: The Contours of ‘Spiritual’ Brotherhoods 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond Sufism: The Unfolding of the Brotherhood 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRewriting Charisma into Brotherhood 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Islamic Civility in Historical and Comparative Perspective\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Flexible Institutionalization and the Expansive Civility of the Islamic Ecumene 105\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Steady Expansion of Islamic Patterns of Translocal Civility 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthority, Autonomy, and Power Networks: A Grid of Flexible Institutions 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Permutable Combinations of Normativity and Civility 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Social Autonomy and Civic Connectedness: The Islamic Ecumene in Comparative Perspective 131\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Patterns of Civic Connectedness Centered on the ‘Commoners’ 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiminality, Charisma, and Social Organization 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMunicipal Autonomy vs. Translocal Connectedness 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Modern Islamic Articulations of Civility\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Knowledge and Power: The Civilizing Process before Colonialism 165\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Mongol Impact to the Early Modern Knowledge–Power Configurations 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaming the Warriors into Games of Civility? Violence, Warfare, and Peace 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Long Wave of Power Decentralization 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Colonial Blueprints of Order and Civility 201\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Metamorphosis of Civility under Colonialism 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCourt Dynamics and Emerging Elites: The Complexification of the Civilizing Process 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClass, Gender, and Generation: The Ultimate Testing Grounds of the Educational-Civilizing Project 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Global Civility and Its Islamic Articulations 239\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dystopian Globalization of Civility 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiversifying Civility as the Outcome of Civilizing Processes 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Islamic Exceptionalism to a Plural Islamic Perspective 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOvercoming Eurocentric Views: Religion and Civility within Islam\/Islamdom 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Institutional Mold of Islamic Civility: Contractualism vs. Corporatism? 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the Postcolonial Condition toward New Fragile Patterns of Translocal Civility 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArmando Salvatore \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Global Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal, and Professor at the Centre for Arab \u0026amp; Islamic Studies of the Australian National University, Canberra. His work as a social scientist emphasizes transregional comparison and explores the Islamic ecumene’s socio-political trajectories as well as transcultural interconnections. As a complement to \u003ci\u003eThe Sociology of Islam \u003c\/i\u003ehe is editing \u003ci\u003eThe Wiley Blackwell History of Islam\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his previous works are \u003ci\u003eIslam and the Political Discourse of Modernity \u003c\/i\u003e(1997), \u003ci\u003ePublic Islam and the Common Good \u003c\/i\u003e(edited with Dale F. Eickelman, 2004), \u003ci\u003eThe Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism and Islam \u003c\/i\u003e(2007), and \u003ci\u003eIslam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates \u003c\/i\u003e(edited with Muhammad Khalid Masud and Martin van Bruinessen, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSociologists of religion have long been awaiting a successor volume to Brian Turner 's pathbreaking but now dated \u003ci\u003eWeber and Islam\u003c\/i\u003e (1974).   Armando Salvatore's new book provides just this update and much more.  Ranging across a host of critical case studies and theoretical issues, Salvatore provides a masterful account of religious ethics, rationalization, and civility across the breadth of the Muslim world, from early times to today.  The result is a book of deep intellectual insight, important, not just for the sociology of Islam, but for scholars and students interested in religion, ethics, and modernity in all civilizational traditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Hefner, Boston University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe sociology of Islam has been a late and controversial addition to the sociology of religion. This field of research has been the principal target of the critique of Orientalism and after 9\/11 the study of Islam became heavily politicized. Terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut have only compounded the long-standing difficulties of objective interpretation and understanding.  In the first volume of what promises to be a major three volume masterpiece, Armando Salvatore steers a careful and judicious course through the various pitfalls that attend the field. The result is an academic triumph combining a sweeping historical vision of Islam with an analytical framework that is structured by the theme of knowledge-power. One waits with huge excitement for the delivery of the remaining volumes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBryan Turner, City University of New York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA brilliant, pioneering effort to explain the cosmopolitan ethos within Islamicate civilization, \u003ci\u003eThe Sociology of Islam\u003c\/i\u003e encompasses all the terminological  boldness of Marshal Hodgson, making the Persianate and Islamicate elements of civic cosmopolitanism, across the vast Afro-Eurasian ecumene, accessible to the widest possible readership in both the humanities and the social sciences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce B. 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