Mohammad Talib
Biographic Data
| ID | 179438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammad Talib |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammad |
| FAMILY NAME | Talib |
| SIGNATURE | TALIB M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between Nation and ‘Community’
Vulnerable yet aspiring
Climate change hinders development, while underdevelopment perpetuates vulnerability limiting resilience to climate change. Given limited public resources, targeted interventions in areas with poor socio-economic indicators can improve adaptive capacity to deal with climate extremes and enhance overall human development. India’s transformative aspirational districts program (TADP) aims to ‘quickly and efficiently’ address this. We evaluate the so…
Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India By Kalyani Devaki Menon
Journal Article Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India By Kalyani Devaki Menon Get access Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary IndiaBy Kalyani Devaki Menon( Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022), xv + 196 pp. Price PB $27.95. EAN 978–1501760617. Mohammad Talib Mohammad Talib Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and University of Oxford Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Lived Islam
Journal Article Lived Islam: Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan Tradition By Kevin Reinhart Get access Lived Islam: Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan TraditionBy Kevin Reinhart (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), xv + 189 pp. Price PB £21.99. EAN 978–1108704007. Mohammad Talib Mohammad Talib Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford E-mail: mohammad.talib@anthro…
Language and Religion
Prayer is what transpires between the worshiper and divinity, expressed in silence or words, in a language that sometimes goes beyond the familiar semantics, its grammar or routine use, outside the criteria of being true or false. While anthropologists account for how ritual prayer impacts the related communities, the focus on the language of a worshiper brings the focus beyond the utterances, onto the way the situated individual experiences the …
The Idea of the Muslim World
The study examines the imaginary of global Muslim unity harboured amongst both Muslim and non-Muslim communities. Such an imaginary persists in spite of the contextual diversities and divisions during wars and normal times. The imaginary of a Muslim world is often times contrasted with the putative ‘West’. Common sense usage ‘rarely questions the historical roots and conceptual shortcuts inherent in such terms’ (p. 2). The study explores why the …
The Sociology of Islam
This book engages with the established scholarly tradition in sociology related to the study of Islam. Such engagement is required to clear the ground to make possible access to the lived reality of Islam in the contemporary world. A large part of the book is author’s conversation with the tradition of scholarship around the study of Islam in its global and local context. This conversation consists of critical appraisals, methodological questions…
Mutual Learning in Lived Religiosity
Muslim Societies in Africa
The stated aim of the volume is to engage with the history and development of African Muslim societies within African history. This is not to dissociate African Muslim history from European history but to look at the relation of the two histories from the southern perspective. From the vantage point of Africa and its adjoining regions, their history with the rest of the world according to the author can be viewed as a history of multiple entangle…
Sites of World-Making
This chapter focuses on three Delhi sites of world-making, each acting as a site of an implicit, largely symbolic politics: the stone quarry workers' children's school, the workers' temple, and the informal sessions of sharing folk tales. It describes the experiences of working class children in the school and examines how this shapes world-making and the workers' perceptions of their living conditions. Although the government implemented a numbe…
Being with the Stone Quarry Workers1
In this chapter, the author discusses his personal research trajectory within the wider intellectual horizon and how his conceptions of the research subject developed and changed during the course of fieldwork. Another change occurred in the manner of interpreting labour as a concept, as well as the living reality of labour communities, in this instance, the stone quarry workers of Delhi. There was an almost total absence of any overtly political…
Conclusion
The obvious gap between seemingly divergent positions engaged in the debate over the life and death of working class reflects a remarkable congruence especially in their choice of metaphors in support of their respective claims. As its starting point, this book chose the context-specific reality of the stone quarry workers who had migrated to the periphery of Delhi. It considered the possibility of documenting local expressions and the recollecti…
Dots on the Stones1
This chapter presents four case profiles of stone quarry workers in Delhi. These profiles, based on workers' oral accounts, suggest that there is no ‘pure’ social category of free workers, who exchange their only possession — their labour — for a wage to eke out subsistence. Instead, the workers featured in this chapter are people who may be living in families or households and, sometimes, in a state of indebtedness that curtails their freedom. T…
Thinking through the Stones
Stone quarrying played a central role in the social and symbolic world of the stone quarry workers in Delhi. The symbolic universe of the workers was invariably comprised of the workers' perception of themselves, their conditions at work and perceptions of the future, and the larger social reality. Workers employed at the stone quarry usually had prior experience that enabled them to adjust to the work and living conditions. This chapter is based…
Writing labour
Travellers in Faith
The Tablīghī Jamā‘at is a twentieth century faith renewal movement, which is presently operating in more than eighty countries. With millions of participants, its annual conference has become the second largest Muslim congregation after the Hajj. In the absence of official writings and its abstinence from media publicity, the Jamā‘at can best be studied by participant observation, as illustrated by the studies of its activities in India, Britain,…
Travellers in Faith
The Tablighis in the Making of Muslim Identity
Research Article| May 01 1997 The Tablighis in the Making of Muslim Identity Mohammad Talib Mohammad Talib Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 32–51. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-17-1-32 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mohammad Talib; The Tablighis in the Making of Muslim Identit…
Managing Editor’s Report 1989-94
Ideology, Curriculum and Class Construction
Etude aupres d'eleves d'une ecole du sud de Delhi et des modeles normatifs qui leur sont proposes a l'ecole en regard de ceux issus de leur propre experience. Issus de la classe ouvriere, nombre d'entre eux quittent l'ecole prematurement et declarent une desaffection a son egard. Les enseignants, tous d'origine sociale superieure a leurs eleves, semblent ne pas croire en la reussite des enfants. Il s'avere que le programme scolaire presente des m…
The Tablighis in the Making of Muslim Identity
Research Article| May 01 1997 The Tablighis in the Making of Muslim Identity Mohammad Talib Mohammad Talib Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 32–51. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-17-1-32 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mohammad Talib; The Tablighis in the Making of Muslim Identit…
Ideology, Curriculum and Class Construction
Etude aupres d'eleves d'une ecole du sud de Delhi et des modeles normatifs qui leur sont proposes a l'ecole en regard de ceux issus de leur propre experience. Issus de la classe ouvriere, nombre d'entre eux quittent l'ecole prematurement et declarent une desaffection a son egard. Les enseignants, tous d'origine sociale superieure a leurs eleves, semblent ne pas croire en la reussite des enfants. Il s'avere que le programme scolaire presente des m…
Ideology, Curriculum and Class Construction
Etude aupres d'eleves d'une ecole du sud de Delhi et des modeles normatifs qui leur sont proposes a l'ecole en regard de ceux issus de leur propre experience. Issus de la classe ouvriere, nombre d'entre eux quittent l'ecole prematurement et declarent une desaffection a son egard. Les enseignants, tous d'origine sociale superieure a leurs eleves, semblent ne pas croire en la reussite des enfants. Il s'avere que le programme scolaire presente des m…
Managing Editor’s Report 1989-94
The Tablighis in the Making of Muslim Identity
Research Article| May 01 1997 The Tablighis in the Making of Muslim Identity Mohammad Talib Mohammad Talib Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 32–51. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-17-1-32 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mohammad Talib; The Tablighis in the Making of Muslim Identit…
Travellers in Faith
The Tablīghī Jamā‘at is a twentieth century faith renewal movement, which is presently operating in more than eighty countries. With millions of participants, its annual conference has become the second largest Muslim congregation after the Hajj. In the absence of official writings and its abstinence from media publicity, the Jamā‘at can best be studied by participant observation, as illustrated by the studies of its activities in India, Britain,…
Travellers in Faith
Sites of World-Making
This chapter focuses on three Delhi sites of world-making, each acting as a site of an implicit, largely symbolic politics: the stone quarry workers' children's school, the workers' temple, and the informal sessions of sharing folk tales. It describes the experiences of working class children in the school and examines how this shapes world-making and the workers' perceptions of their living conditions. Although the government implemented a numbe…
Being with the Stone Quarry Workers1
In this chapter, the author discusses his personal research trajectory within the wider intellectual horizon and how his conceptions of the research subject developed and changed during the course of fieldwork. Another change occurred in the manner of interpreting labour as a concept, as well as the living reality of labour communities, in this instance, the stone quarry workers of Delhi. There was an almost total absence of any overtly political…
Conclusion
The obvious gap between seemingly divergent positions engaged in the debate over the life and death of working class reflects a remarkable congruence especially in their choice of metaphors in support of their respective claims. As its starting point, this book chose the context-specific reality of the stone quarry workers who had migrated to the periphery of Delhi. It considered the possibility of documenting local expressions and the recollecti…
Dots on the Stones1
This chapter presents four case profiles of stone quarry workers in Delhi. These profiles, based on workers' oral accounts, suggest that there is no ‘pure’ social category of free workers, who exchange their only possession — their labour — for a wage to eke out subsistence. Instead, the workers featured in this chapter are people who may be living in families or households and, sometimes, in a state of indebtedness that curtails their freedom. T…
Thinking through the Stones
Stone quarrying played a central role in the social and symbolic world of the stone quarry workers in Delhi. The symbolic universe of the workers was invariably comprised of the workers' perception of themselves, their conditions at work and perceptions of the future, and the larger social reality. Workers employed at the stone quarry usually had prior experience that enabled them to adjust to the work and living conditions. This chapter is based…
Writing labour
Muslim Societies in Africa
The stated aim of the volume is to engage with the history and development of African Muslim societies within African history. This is not to dissociate African Muslim history from European history but to look at the relation of the two histories from the southern perspective. From the vantage point of Africa and its adjoining regions, their history with the rest of the world according to the author can be viewed as a history of multiple entangle…
The Sociology of Islam
This book engages with the established scholarly tradition in sociology related to the study of Islam. Such engagement is required to clear the ground to make possible access to the lived reality of Islam in the contemporary world. A large part of the book is author’s conversation with the tradition of scholarship around the study of Islam in its global and local context. This conversation consists of critical appraisals, methodological questions…
Mutual Learning in Lived Religiosity
Language and Religion
Prayer is what transpires between the worshiper and divinity, expressed in silence or words, in a language that sometimes goes beyond the familiar semantics, its grammar or routine use, outside the criteria of being true or false. While anthropologists account for how ritual prayer impacts the related communities, the focus on the language of a worshiper brings the focus beyond the utterances, onto the way the situated individual experiences the …
The Idea of the Muslim World
The study examines the imaginary of global Muslim unity harboured amongst both Muslim and non-Muslim communities. Such an imaginary persists in spite of the contextual diversities and divisions during wars and normal times. The imaginary of a Muslim world is often times contrasted with the putative ‘West’. Common sense usage ‘rarely questions the historical roots and conceptual shortcuts inherent in such terms’ (p. 2). The study explores why the …
Lived Islam
Journal Article Lived Islam: Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan Tradition By Kevin Reinhart Get access Lived Islam: Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan TraditionBy Kevin Reinhart (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), xv + 189 pp. Price PB £21.99. EAN 978–1108704007. Mohammad Talib Mohammad Talib Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford E-mail: mohammad.talib@anthro…
Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India By Kalyani Devaki Menon
Journal Article Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India By Kalyani Devaki Menon Get access Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary IndiaBy Kalyani Devaki Menon( Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022), xv + 196 pp. Price PB $27.95. EAN 978–1501760617. Mohammad Talib Mohammad Talib Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and University of Oxford Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Between Nation and ‘Community’
Vulnerable yet aspiring
Climate change hinders development, while underdevelopment perpetuates vulnerability limiting resilience to climate change. Given limited public resources, targeted interventions in areas with poor socio-economic indicators can improve adaptive capacity to deal with climate extremes and enhance overall human development. India’s transformative aspirational districts program (TADP) aims to ‘quickly and efficiently’ address this. We evaluate the so…
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