Understanding Muslim Identity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Gabriele Marranci

   Pages 1-25

3. Fundamentalism Debated

   • Gabriele Marranci

   Pages 26-50

4. Reading Islamic Fundamentalism: Theories, Theorems and Kernels of Truth

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   Pages 51-77

5. The Ethos of Justice: Emotions, Feelings and Dystopia

   • Gabriele Marranci

   Pages 78-106

6. Tawhid, Charisma and the Bund

   • Gabriele Marranci

   Pages 107-126

7. How to be Human: The Civilised and the Civilisable

   • Gabriele Marranci

   Pages 127-146

8. Conclusion

   • Gabriele Marranci

   Pages 147-154

9. Back Matter

   Pages 155-174

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In this timely book, Marranci critically surveys the available theories on Islamic fundamentalism and extremism. Rejecting essentialism and cultural reductionism, the book suggests that identity and emotion play an essential role in the phenomenon that has been called fundamentalism.

• boundary element method
• emotion
• extremism
• fundamentalism
• identity
• Islam
• justice
• play
• reading
• survey
• thinking
• understanding

'This book is a wake-up call for Muslim academics to get involved and start to write about Muslim identity from a Muslim viewpoint, rather than letting others interpret what Muslims do and think, and why. From that point of view, this book will be useful as a sounding board against which first-hand perspectives can be balanced.' - Ibrahim Hewitt, Muslim World Book Review

• University of Western Sydney, Australia

  Gabriele Marranci

GABRIELE MARRANCI is Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Islam, College of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the founding editor of the journal Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, and the book series (with Prof. Turner) Muslims in Global Societies. He is the author of Jihad Beyond Islam and The Anthropology of Islam.

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