Posted: July 14th, 2013

Mirza Khan and Eid

Compare how Mirza Khan and Eid, described in Shadid’s Ch. 1, experience and represent contending visions within Islam on religion and society in terms of either Gaffney’s or Eickelman’s problematisations. Look beyond Shadid’s framing of the problem as “identity.” Both Mirza Khan and Eid present Islam as “the answer” to problems of identity of Islam as religion/worldview and as Muslims persons in the contemporary world. What are the worlds (local, national, transnational, occupational, political) they register and address in Islamic terms?  NB:  Chapter 1 of Shadid’s Legacy of the Prophet is available on-line from Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?id=gB9KZEcjU2gC&printsec=frontcover&dq=legacy+of+the+prophet&lr=&client=firefox-a#PPA41,M1
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