Practices of Islamic Preaching: Text, Performativity, and Materiality of Islamic Religious Speech

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2024

Practices of Islamic Preaching

Text, Performativity, and Materiality of Islamic Religious Speech

Edited by: Ayşe Almıla Akca , Mona Feise-Nasr , Leonie Stenske and Aydın Süer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110788334

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Preaching, a practice composed of and accompanied by a myriad of different activities, is an essential element of Muslim religious life both within and beyond mosques. As such, Islamic preaching is a common means of religious promulgation and knowledge transfer, of pastoral guidance and uplift, but also of communication between believers, and as a source of negotiating religious normativity, power relations, and societal topics.

Given the centrality of preaching in Muslims’ religious life, this collective volume presents contributions on various aspects of performance, text, space, and materiality of Islamic preaching in history and present. The interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary framework captures Islamic preaching as it unfolds in its social setting. The volume aims at representing the inner-Islamic diversity by depicting the practice of preaching as it came about in different times and geographical locations, shedding light onto Friday gatherings and sermons (ḫutba), and other forms of preaching (e. g. waʿẓ), be it during Ramadan, at religious feasts and commemorations, or on personal occasions such as weddings and funerals. Therefore, each chapter offers a different insight into the interwoven character of sermons’ contents, the preacher him/herself, and the audience by emphasising the role of their bodily performance, of the temporality and spatiality of preaching, and of the objects and items involved.

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Ayşe Almıla Akca, Mona Feise-Nasr, Leonie Stenske and Aydın Süer, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introducing Practices of Preaching Ayşe Almıla Akca, Mona Feise-Nasr, Leonie Stenske and Aydın Süer Open Access Download PDF	1
I Bodily Performances, Material Settings
The Somatic and the Sonic in Contemporary Urdu Shiʿi Khiṭābat Mohammad Nabeel Jafri Open Access Download PDF	23
Mono- and Dialogicity in Islamic Sermons in German Fatemeh Taheri Open Access Download PDF	41
Conceptualizing Contemporary Audiovisual Daʿwa Christoph Günther Open Access Download PDF	61
II Space and Meaning
Khuṭba Activism against Gender-Based Violence: The Claremont Main Road Mosque’s Community Tafsīr Margherita Picchi Open Access Download PDF	77
Signifying the Preacher: Preaching Practices on Minbars Depicted in the Illustrated Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī Miriam Kühn Open Access Download PDF	103
Preaching Islam in a Migratory Context: Sermons, Migrant Spaces, and Religious Practices among Keralite Sunni Muslim Migrants in Qatar T. P. Muhammad Ashraf Open Access Download PDF	131
III Navigating the Normative
Instructing the Believers: Ottoman Bosnian Khalwati Sermons on Normative and Supererogatory Rituals Dženita Karić Open Access Download PDF	155
Theory, Practice, and Tradition in the Malay Khuṭba Manuals of Maḥmūd Zuhdī al-Faṭānī Philipp Bruckmayr Open Access Download PDF	175
IV Negotiating Authorities
Preaching, Admonishing, and the Struggle over Authority and Normativity between Scholars and Popular Preachers in Mamluk Society Mohammad Gharaibeh Open Access Download PDF	199
“May God Bless the Caliph”: The Mentioning of Rulers in Friday Sermons of the Abbasid Era Ramzi Ghandour Open Access Download PDF	221
Mufti Tariq Masood and the Performance of Religious Speech: Social Media and Religious Discourses in Pakistan Mohammad Waqas Sajjad Open Access Download PDF	237
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	257

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of Islamic studies, Islamic theology, cultural studies, gender studies, material culture, sociology
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 258
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 9
Keywords: Religious practice; practical theology; homiletics; Imams

eBook

Published: December 18, 2023
ISBN: 9783110788334

Hardcover

Published: December 18, 2023
ISBN: 9783110788297