Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

Series Editors’ Foreword

pp viii-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

Notes on Contributors

pp xiii-xviii

Note on Transliteration

pp xix-xix

Dedication

pp xx-xx

1 - Introduction: Why New Methods in the Study of Islam?

pp 1-10

Part I - Methods: Old and New

pp 11-12

2 - New Methods, Old Methods in the Study of Islam:On the Importance of Translation

pp 13-35

3 - The Reception of al-Andalus, 1821–2021: Two HundredYears of Study and Debate

pp 36-68

Part II - Textual Studies

pp 69-70

4 - Subversive Philology? Prosopography as a Relational andCorpus-Based Approach to Early Islamic History

pp 71-107

5 - Juxtaposition, Tension, Play: The Development ofIslamic Law and Legal Theory

pp 108-126

6 - New Theoretical Approaches to the Qurʾān and Qurʾānic Studies:An Analysis of the Qurʾānic (Disabled) Body in Light ofConceptual Metaphor and Conceptual Blending Theory

pp 127-164

Part III - Islam and/as Critique

pp 165-166

7 - On the Relationship between Culture/Religion and Politics:A Critique of the Culturalist Approach to Islam

pp 167-196

Part IV - New Comparisons

pp 197-198

8 - Can Comparative Theology Help Muslims to a BetterUnderstanding of Religious Diversity?

pp 199-220

Part V - Local Islams

pp 221-222

9 - Eastern or Western Paradigm: The Struggle for MethodologicalDominance in the Study of Islam in Universities inNorthern Nigeria

pp 223-251

10 - Narratives from the Peripheries: An Indian Ocean Perspectivefor the Study of Islam

pp 252-277

11 - Including Localised Islamic Concepts in the Study of Islam

pp 278-305

12 - Bodies, Things, Doings: A Practice Theory Approach tothe Study of Islam

pp 306-327

Index

pp 328-332