Introduction: Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa

Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds

“…Along similar lines, Benjamin Soares and others (Otayek and Soares 2007;Soares and Osella 2010) have recently made a case for a revised approach to the anthropological study of Islam -more precisely, the study of politics in Muslim contexts. They suggest the French term Islam mondaine, rendered as 'Islam in the present world' (2010: 11; following Otayek and Soares 2007: 17), as indicative of such a perspective.…”

Localising Salafism

“…He interprets Saudi Arabian Salafism, or Wahhabism, as he writes, as an exclusively politicised movement. See Otayek and Soares (2007) for some enlightening views on this issue. A similar, and more recent labelling has been noted by Bangstad: some Tablīgh reformers in present-day South Africa are called Salafis (2007: 191f.).…”

“…For critique of such dichotomies in relation to African contexts, seeOtayek and Soares (2007) and the contributions in the volume edited byLoimeier and Seesemann (2006).…”

“…For some interesting perspectives on this development, see the contributions by Ould Ahmed Salem, Renders, Abbink, Kaag and Sadouni in the volume edited bySoares and Otayek (2007).…”

Market Islam in Indonesia

“…3 This is chapter 103 of the Qur'an. 4 Recently, however, anthropologists have begun to address this articulation (Maurer 2005;Otayek & Soares 2007;Sloane 1999). 5 I have used this approach to explain other phenomena in contemporary Indonesia (Rudnyckyj 2004).…”