Abstract: Drawing on analysis of different sources — media analysis, policy documents, interviews, and participant observation — this article analyzes the representation of Queen Rania of Jordan and the First Lady of Syria, Asma …
Abstract: There is near unanimity among observers that those who have benefited most from the Arab Spring are the Islamists, who have been brought to power at the ballot box in a number of the countries that have witnessed revolu…
Abstract: Based on analysis of scholarly and primary sources that include July 2011 and January and February 2014 fieldwork in Cairo, this article examines civil as a word with multiple synchronic meanings and shifts in valence i…
Abstract: The establishment of the state of Israel in Palestine in 1948, and the forcible dispossession and destruction of the major part of Palestinian society from the conquered territories that this entailed, is today referred…
Abstract: This introduction provides the context within which the conversation about Rudolph Ware’s book is conducted. It identifies the key issues The Walking Qur’an addresses as well as the epistemological ruptures indispensabl…
Abstract: Ware’s impassioned condemnation of the idea of Islam noir is a reaction to its unfortunate consequences for the scholarly study of Africa and of Islam: the marginalization of Islam in the study of Africa and of Africa i…
Abstract: The publication of Rudolph Ware’s The Walking Qur’an revives the debate surrounding fundamentally divergent understandings of Islamic identity, the epistemological divide between Salafism and traditionally trained Afric…
Abstract: The Walking Qur’an by Rudolph T. Ware III ambitiously takes on African and Islamic studies in a call to make the study of Islam in Africa more central to the two fields that have left it lying in a double margin. By arg…
Abstract: Rudolph Ware’s groundbreaking work, The Walking Qur’an, is for the most part devoted to an important episode of the history of Senegambia known as “the Wars of the Marabouts.” Leaning on works by historians of the perio…
Abstract: This article uses Rudolph T. Ware III’s original and compelling book, The Walking Qur’an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa, as a window through which to reflect on the contribution of We…