Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop

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Miriam Cooke, Bruce B. Lawrence
Univ of North Carolina Press, 2005 - 325 pages
Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks. The earliest networks were Mediterranean trade routes that quickly expanded into transregional paths for pilgrimage, scholarship, and conversion, each network complementing an
 

Contents

Introduction
1
DEFINING MUSLIM NETWORKS
31
A Networked Civilization?
51
The Network Metaphor and the Mosque Network in Iran 19781979
69
The Scope and Limits of Islamic Cosmopolitanism and the Discursive Language of the Ulama
84
IMAGINING MUSLIM NETWORKS
107
Sacred Narratives Linking Iraqi Women across Time and Space
132
Them Islamic Salon Elite Womens Religious Networks in Egypt
155
The Salafi Movement Violence and the fragmentation of Community
208
Defining Islamic Interconnectivity
235
Wiring Up The Internet Difference for Muslim Networks
252
A New Research Agenda Exploring the Transglobal Hip Hop
264
Afterword
275
Bibliography
283
Contributors
303
Index
307

Voices of Faith Faces of Beauty Connecting American Muslim Women through Azizah
169
TRACING MUSLIM NETWORKS
191

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Bruce B. Lawrence is Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor and professor of Islamic studies at Duke University. He is author of New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life.

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