ABSTRACT
Ritual and practice are one of the most distinctive features of religion, and they are linked with its central beliefs. Islam is no exception here, and this Handbook covers many aspects of those beliefs and practices. It describes the variety of what takes place but mainly why, and what the implications of both the theory and practice have for our understanding of Islam. The book includes accounts of prayer, food, pilgrimage, mosques, and the various legal and doctrinal schools that exist within Islam, with the focus on how they influence practice.
The volume is organized in terms of texts, groups, practices, places, and others. An attempt has been made to discuss the wide range of Muslim ritual and practice and provide a sound guide to this significant aspect of the religious life of one of the largest groups of believers in the world today.
Introduction Oliver Leaman TEXTS 1: The Qur’an: Ritual, Practice, Embodiment and Culture Natana J. DeLong-Bas 2: Hadith Mansur Ali GROUPS 3: The Hanafis Hamza Dudgeon 4: The Hanbalis: the Later-Generation and the development of the mu‘tamad opinions Jewel Jalil and Saud al-Sarhan 5: Malikis Delfina Serrano-Ruano 6: Salafi Ritual Law and Practice Richard Gauvain 7: The Shafiʿis Nuha Alshaar 8: Shi‘i Rituals and Practices Liyakat Takim 9: The Ismailis: History, Doctrines and Ritual Practices Shiraz Kabani 10: Ibadis Adam Gaiser 11: Ritual Practices among the ʿAlawis, the Druze, the Ahmadis, and Black Muslims Fachrizal Halim 12: Sufis: Invoking God’s name and the Practice of Dhikr Raid al-Daghistani 13: Returning to God: Constructing Agency Through the Practice of Dhikr in Sufi Islam Feyza Akova PRACTICES 14: Prayer Stephen Burge 15: Language, Ritual and non-Ritual Prayer: Salat and Do’a Niloofar Haeri 16: Qur’an Recital Lauren Osborn 17: Ramadan Herman Beck 18: Mawlid Andrea Stanton 19: Circumcision Shazia Moosa, Mahnoor Nawab, Hira Zuberi, Lubna Samad 20: Halal Slaughter John Lever and Awal Fuseini 21: Tahara Serdar Kurnaz 22: The Social Dynamics of Khulʿ: The Experience of German Muslims Mahmoud Jaraba 23: Islamic Fashion Heather Akou 24: Young adults: Fueling Young Muslim Adults’ Religiosity by Connecting Islamic Beliefs and Practices across their Development Mona Abo-Zena and Abdul-Malik Merchant PLACES 25: Sacred space Simon O’Meara 26: Sacred spaces: adaptation and early Islam Essam Ayyad 27: Twelver Shi‘a Pilgrimage – Ziyara Ingvild Flaskerud 28: Ziyara (ʿAlawi Ritual and Practice) Amelia Gallagher 29: The Qibla: Ritual Orientation in the Formation of Islamic Collective Identity Ari Gordon OTHERS 30: Animals as Agents? A Qur’anic View Asmaa El Maaroufi 31: Heresy or Moral Imperative? Islamic Perspectives on Veganism Zinnira Shaikh 32: "Islamic reformism": colonial influence on Muslim intellectual practice Mohamed Amine Brahimi 33: Qur’an, Rituals and Muslim Memory of Jews Mehnaz M. Afridi 34: Muslim attitudes to Christian ritual and practice Clinton Bennett 35: Interfaith Practices Elizabeth Becker 36: Ritual, Embodiment and Creativity in the Muslim Diaspora: Transnational Migrations and Symbolic Returns Pnina Werbner 37: The Secular World Ufuk Topkara 38: Rituals, equality, and difference Oliver Leaman Index
