Sarah A Tobin
Biographic Data
| ID | 174515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah A Tobin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah A |
| FAMILY NAME | Tobin |
| SIGNATURE | TOBIN S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chr. Michelsen Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3995-2696 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Overcoming the Invisible Ceiling for the Empowerment of Refugees and Immigrants Through Islamic Finance
The 21st century has been marked by continuous political, economic and financial crises on a global, regional and national scale, leading to an unprecedented movement of people in the form of refugees and immigrants. The global refugee crisis has reached unprecedented levels, with millions of people displaced due to conflicts, persecution and natural disasters. Access to adequate finance is critical for refugees, as it significantly impacts their…
What Alternative Do I Have: Syrian Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Interest‐Based Financing in Norway
Syrian refugee entrepreneurs in Norway navigate a financing and support system that they find largely exclusive and unaccepting when it comes to launching and operating a new business. Using a case study of a Syrian Muslim immigrant entrepreneur and a lecture on the topic by a religious leader in a major mosque in Oslo, this paper utilizes a theoretical framework on moral economies and entrepreneurship to argue that there is a “mismatch” between …
Unexpectedly Sudanese Syrians: Issuing passports and the challenges of integration
Since the Syrian crisis began more than 10 years ago, over 11 million Syrians have been displaced. By 2015, Sudan hosted a large number of Syrians because it became the only country in the region that did not require visas for them, which is a result of the countries’ migration and foreign policies. For years, the more than 250,000 Syrians in Sudan were treated largely as unbothered “guests”: they were able to live, work, obtain an education, and…
The war has divided us more than ever: Syrian refugee family networks and social capital for mobility through protracted displacement in Jordan
The Syrian crisis began in 2011 in Daràa, near the southern-Syrian border, with the first refugees coming into Jordan thereafter. Over the course of the following years, nearly one million Syrian refugees migrated to Jordan and still reside there, some in the same areas in which they first settled. These settlement patterns are often portrayed in simplistic narratives of Syrian migration that emphasise mobility in a straightforward trajectory. Th…
Self‐making in Exile: Moral Emplacement by Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan
This article brings an anthropology of ethics to bear on a case of forced migration and displacement among Syrian refugee women in Jordan. The case reveals how projects of Islamic self‐making in displacement become “emplacement” processes within the new state‐mediated context. Syrian women in Jordan engage in Islamic self‐making as part of their wider emplacement practices in two primary ways: first, operating more publicly in the material world …
Response to Rachel M. Gillum’s Review of The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Islamic Neoliberalism for Jordan's Islamic Action Front in Islamic Banking and Finance
There is a paradox: why are there so many political and economic Islamic actors in the Middle East but not a large willingness on their part to adopt and promote Islamic banking and finance methodologies? This paper argues that the more vague and ambivalent these actors are on economic policy, the wider their appeal; and, by extension, the more compatible Islamic ideas and ideologies are with neoliberalism. The case of the Islamic Action Front (I…
Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace, written by Patricia Sloane-White, 2017
Vernacular Politics, Sectarianism, and National Identity among Syrian Refugees in Jordan
In Jordan-home to some one million Syrian refugees-the vital roles played by vernacular politics, discourses of inclusion and exclusion, and sectarian social histories for Syrians are often considered unimportant when examining possibilities for integration or coexistence. Based on ethnographic research and participation in women's religion classes in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan in 2014, I argue that while sectarian identities may not in and …
Islamic Headcovering and Political Engagement: The Power of Social Networks
This article explores the relationship between headcovering and women's political participation through an original online survey of 1,917 Muslim-American women. As a visible marker of religious group identity, wearing the headscarf can orient the integration of Muslim women into the American political system via its impact on the openness of their associational life. Our survey respondents who cover are more likely to form insular, strong ties w…
Everyday Piety: Islam and Economy in Jordan
Working and living as an authentic Muslim—comporting oneself in an Islamically appropriate way—in the global economy can be very challenging. How do middle-class Muslims living in the Middle East navigate contemporary economic demands in a distinctly Islamic way? What are the impacts of these efforts on their Islamic piety? To what authority does one turn when questions arise? What happens when the answers vary and there is little or no consensus…
The Complexity of Covering: The Religious, Social, and Political Dynamics of Islamic Practice in the United States
Objective Mainstream American perception often views Islamic headcovering as a controversial practice indicative of gender repression and norms violating individual rights. Practicing Muslims counter that headcovering expresses piety, modesty, and protection. Recent scholarship affirms the complexity of the practice, and reveals that the motivations behind donning the headscarf span the religious, social, and political realms for Muslim women. Me…
Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt By Mona Atia
Mona Atia’s book should be housed in bookstores somewhere between the self-help section, the contemporary economics section, the Middle East section, and the Islamic studies section. If this innovative ethnography were placed solely in the geography section, it would not receive the full attention it deserves. Simultaneously informing and intervening in a number of disciplines, Building a House in Heaven argues that ‘pious neoliberalism’ has prom…
Wall Street Women. Melissa S.Fisher. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 240 pp
Ramadan Blues: Debates in PopularIslam duringRamadan inAmman,Jordan
Within the context of the contemporaryMiddleEast and the post-Islamic Resurgence, avoiding music has become associated with a rise in religiosity and normativeIslam. As a result, residents ofAmman,Jordan actively avoid consuming music duringRamadan. A large-scale survey and ethnographic data, including participant observation with employees in anIslamic bank, confirm that avoiding music is a public ethic ofRamadan that is temporally specific and …
J ordan's A rab S pring: T he M iddle C lass and A nti ‐R evolution
Islamic Banking in the Global Financial Crisis: "The Value of "Banking Rightly
White Conceptions of Racial Hierarchy: Temporary versus Permanent Preferences
Ideas of race, racial identity, and racial categorization, reflect the inconsistent, context-specific and fluctuating nature of racial meaning (Nagel, 1986; Forbes, 1990; Davis, 1991; Nagel, 1994; Haney-Lopez, 1995; Ignatiev, 1995; Kibria, 1996,1998; Niven & Zilber, 2000; Morning, 2001; Lacy, 2004). Studies of racial hierarchy, specifically, enable an understanding of not only the social construction of race, but also the manner in which ideas of…
J ordan's A rab S pring: T he M iddle C lass and A nti ‐R evolution
The war has divided us more than ever: Syrian refugee family networks and social capital for mobility through protracted displacement in Jordan
The Syrian crisis began in 2011 in Daràa, near the southern-Syrian border, with the first refugees coming into Jordan thereafter. Over the course of the following years, nearly one million Syrian refugees migrated to Jordan and still reside there, some in the same areas in which they first settled. These settlement patterns are often portrayed in simplistic narratives of Syrian migration that emphasise mobility in a straightforward trajectory. Th…
Islamic Headcovering and Political Engagement: The Power of Social Networks
This article explores the relationship between headcovering and women's political participation through an original online survey of 1,917 Muslim-American women. As a visible marker of religious group identity, wearing the headscarf can orient the integration of Muslim women into the American political system via its impact on the openness of their associational life. Our survey respondents who cover are more likely to form insular, strong ties w…
White Conceptions of Racial Hierarchy: Temporary versus Permanent Preferences
Ideas of race, racial identity, and racial categorization, reflect the inconsistent, context-specific and fluctuating nature of racial meaning (Nagel, 1986; Forbes, 1990; Davis, 1991; Nagel, 1994; Haney-Lopez, 1995; Ignatiev, 1995; Kibria, 1996,1998; Niven & Zilber, 2000; Morning, 2001; Lacy, 2004). Studies of racial hierarchy, specifically, enable an understanding of not only the social construction of race, but also the manner in which ideas of…
Islamic Neoliberalism for Jordan's Islamic Action Front in Islamic Banking and Finance
There is a paradox: why are there so many political and economic Islamic actors in the Middle East but not a large willingness on their part to adopt and promote Islamic banking and finance methodologies? This paper argues that the more vague and ambivalent these actors are on economic policy, the wider their appeal; and, by extension, the more compatible Islamic ideas and ideologies are with neoliberalism. The case of the Islamic Action Front (I…
Vernacular Politics, Sectarianism, and National Identity among Syrian Refugees in Jordan
In Jordan-home to some one million Syrian refugees-the vital roles played by vernacular politics, discourses of inclusion and exclusion, and sectarian social histories for Syrians are often considered unimportant when examining possibilities for integration or coexistence. Based on ethnographic research and participation in women's religion classes in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan in 2014, I argue that while sectarian identities may not in and …
The Complexity of Covering: The Religious, Social, and Political Dynamics of Islamic Practice in the United States
Objective Mainstream American perception often views Islamic headcovering as a controversial practice indicative of gender repression and norms violating individual rights. Practicing Muslims counter that headcovering expresses piety, modesty, and protection. Recent scholarship affirms the complexity of the practice, and reveals that the motivations behind donning the headscarf span the religious, social, and political realms for Muslim women. Me…
Islamic Banking in the Global Financial Crisis: "The Value of "Banking Rightly
White Conceptions of Racial Hierarchy: Temporary versus Permanent Preferences
Ideas of race, racial identity, and racial categorization, reflect the inconsistent, context-specific and fluctuating nature of racial meaning (Nagel, 1986; Forbes, 1990; Davis, 1991; Nagel, 1994; Haney-Lopez, 1995; Ignatiev, 1995; Kibria, 1996,1998; Niven & Zilber, 2000; Morning, 2001; Lacy, 2004). Studies of racial hierarchy, specifically, enable an understanding of not only the social construction of race, but also the manner in which ideas of…
Islamic Banking in the Global Financial Crisis: "The Value of "Banking Rightly
J ordan's A rab S pring: T he M iddle C lass and A nti ‐R evolution
Wall Street Women. Melissa S.Fisher. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 240 pp
Ramadan Blues: Debates in PopularIslam duringRamadan inAmman,Jordan
Within the context of the contemporaryMiddleEast and the post-Islamic Resurgence, avoiding music has become associated with a rise in religiosity and normativeIslam. As a result, residents ofAmman,Jordan actively avoid consuming music duringRamadan. A large-scale survey and ethnographic data, including participant observation with employees in anIslamic bank, confirm that avoiding music is a public ethic ofRamadan that is temporally specific and …
Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt By Mona Atia
Mona Atia’s book should be housed in bookstores somewhere between the self-help section, the contemporary economics section, the Middle East section, and the Islamic studies section. If this innovative ethnography were placed solely in the geography section, it would not receive the full attention it deserves. Simultaneously informing and intervening in a number of disciplines, Building a House in Heaven argues that ‘pious neoliberalism’ has prom…
Everyday Piety: Islam and Economy in Jordan
Working and living as an authentic Muslim—comporting oneself in an Islamically appropriate way—in the global economy can be very challenging. How do middle-class Muslims living in the Middle East navigate contemporary economic demands in a distinctly Islamic way? What are the impacts of these efforts on their Islamic piety? To what authority does one turn when questions arise? What happens when the answers vary and there is little or no consensus…
The Complexity of Covering: The Religious, Social, and Political Dynamics of Islamic Practice in the United States
Objective Mainstream American perception often views Islamic headcovering as a controversial practice indicative of gender repression and norms violating individual rights. Practicing Muslims counter that headcovering expresses piety, modesty, and protection. Recent scholarship affirms the complexity of the practice, and reveals that the motivations behind donning the headscarf span the religious, social, and political realms for Muslim women. Me…
Islamic Headcovering and Political Engagement: The Power of Social Networks
This article explores the relationship between headcovering and women's political participation through an original online survey of 1,917 Muslim-American women. As a visible marker of religious group identity, wearing the headscarf can orient the integration of Muslim women into the American political system via its impact on the openness of their associational life. Our survey respondents who cover are more likely to form insular, strong ties w…
Vernacular Politics, Sectarianism, and National Identity among Syrian Refugees in Jordan
In Jordan-home to some one million Syrian refugees-the vital roles played by vernacular politics, discourses of inclusion and exclusion, and sectarian social histories for Syrians are often considered unimportant when examining possibilities for integration or coexistence. Based on ethnographic research and participation in women's religion classes in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan in 2014, I argue that while sectarian identities may not in and …
Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace, written by Patricia Sloane-White, 2017
Self‐making in Exile: Moral Emplacement by Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan
This article brings an anthropology of ethics to bear on a case of forced migration and displacement among Syrian refugee women in Jordan. The case reveals how projects of Islamic self‐making in displacement become “emplacement” processes within the new state‐mediated context. Syrian women in Jordan engage in Islamic self‐making as part of their wider emplacement practices in two primary ways: first, operating more publicly in the material world …
Response to Rachel M. Gillum’s Review of The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Islamic Neoliberalism for Jordan's Islamic Action Front in Islamic Banking and Finance
There is a paradox: why are there so many political and economic Islamic actors in the Middle East but not a large willingness on their part to adopt and promote Islamic banking and finance methodologies? This paper argues that the more vague and ambivalent these actors are on economic policy, the wider their appeal; and, by extension, the more compatible Islamic ideas and ideologies are with neoliberalism. The case of the Islamic Action Front (I…
The war has divided us more than ever: Syrian refugee family networks and social capital for mobility through protracted displacement in Jordan
The Syrian crisis began in 2011 in Daràa, near the southern-Syrian border, with the first refugees coming into Jordan thereafter. Over the course of the following years, nearly one million Syrian refugees migrated to Jordan and still reside there, some in the same areas in which they first settled. These settlement patterns are often portrayed in simplistic narratives of Syrian migration that emphasise mobility in a straightforward trajectory. Th…
Unexpectedly Sudanese Syrians: Issuing passports and the challenges of integration
Since the Syrian crisis began more than 10 years ago, over 11 million Syrians have been displaced. By 2015, Sudan hosted a large number of Syrians because it became the only country in the region that did not require visas for them, which is a result of the countries’ migration and foreign policies. For years, the more than 250,000 Syrians in Sudan were treated largely as unbothered “guests”: they were able to live, work, obtain an education, and…
Overcoming the Invisible Ceiling for the Empowerment of Refugees and Immigrants Through Islamic Finance
The 21st century has been marked by continuous political, economic and financial crises on a global, regional and national scale, leading to an unprecedented movement of people in the form of refugees and immigrants. The global refugee crisis has reached unprecedented levels, with millions of people displaced due to conflicts, persecution and natural disasters. Access to adequate finance is critical for refugees, as it significantly impacts their…
What Alternative Do I Have: Syrian Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Interest‐Based Financing in Norway
Syrian refugee entrepreneurs in Norway navigate a financing and support system that they find largely exclusive and unaccepting when it comes to launching and operating a new business. Using a case study of a Syrian Muslim immigrant entrepreneur and a lecture on the topic by a religious leader in a major mosque in Oslo, this paper utilizes a theoretical framework on moral economies and entrepreneurship to argue that there is a “mismatch” between …
Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Islam (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies (5 works)