Product Description: As a world religion Islam is based on a highly abstract and absolute notion of the transcendent, which its followers establish and celebrate, in a seemingly contradictory fashion, at very specific sites: Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and in the vast and complex landscapes of mosques and Muslim saints' shrines around the world...read more

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Product Description: This volume addresses the diversity of sainthood in Islam with respect to rural and urban and metropolitan ideas, practices and cults, their networks and institutions. Ranging from ethnography and history to political science and social theory, this work includes studies of places and the local cultural significance of sainthood, its ethnic or genealogical origin, the constitution of corporations and brotherhoods and drives for sacredness in Algeria, Egypt, Germany and Turkey...read more

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Product Description: " In this first volume of the Yearbook of Sociology of Islam Georg Stauth brought together Islamologists and Sociologists who explore Islam and modern applications of Islamic thought as a way of demonstrating in a variety of social fields the ambiguity of the effective use of religious ideas and specifically Islamic models of social order to promote change...read more

Product Description: " The second volume of the Yearbook of Sociology enters into a new terrain in the analysis of relationships which are grouped around the tensions between Islam and Modernity: the South-South dimension of cultural exchange. The editors, Georg Stauth and Helmut Buchholt, propose with this volume to limit in a first step of analysis the South-South dimension, first, to the intermediary role of Islam as a pattern of cultural exchange between various regions of the Non-Western World...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)