Böcker i Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks-serien

Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body. Examining Sufi conceptions of the body in religious writings from the late fifteenth through the nineteenth century, this title demonstrates that literature from this era often treated saints' physical bodies as sites of sacred power.

Centering Pakistan in a story of transnational Islam stretching from South Asia to the Middle East, Simon Wolfgang Fuchs offers the first in-depth ethnographic history of the intellectual production of Shi'is and their religious competitors in this "Land of the Pure".

Traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the region's intellectual, cultural, and political developments. The author explores the art and writings of major artists, men and women, ranging from the late colonial period to the era of independence and beyond.

Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa

Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi ism"

Pilgrimage is one of the most significant ritual duties for Muslims. As demonstrated in this multidisciplinary volume, the lived religion of pilgrimage, defined by embodied devotional practices, is changing in an age characterized by commerce, technology, and new sociocultural and political frameworks.