Abdulkader Tayob
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 221946 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Abdulkader Tayob |
| NOMBRES | Abdulkader |
| APELLIDO | Tayob |
| FIRMA | TAYOB A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7615-2324 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Islam, the Colonial, and the Question of Friendship
Religion after Critique
In the last few decades, religion and its terms have shown to be implicated in projects of colonial modernity. While this critique of religion is now generally accepted, the term continues to be used in the field with little regard to its history and its colonial construction. This essay aims to bring greater attention to the continuing relevance of religion in contemporary society as articulated in postcolonial scholarship. It proposes closer at…
Minorities Between State and Sharia Discourses in African Muslim Societies
This essay proposes a framework for understanding the construction of religious groups and minorities in Muslim societies through two intersecting and inter-related discourses. The first is a discourse and experience of modern state formation with roots in Africa’s colonial history. And the second is a discourse of the Other in Islamic jurisprudence and theology. It builds on Talal Asad’s thesis that a modern state discourse of secular authority …
The Secular State and Religion in the Post‐Colony
Becoming Better Muslims
This concise and informative book on Muslims provides a detailed background of Islam in Aceh, Indonesia, and then turns towards an anthropological study in a few villages. The author approaches the
Decolonizing the Study of Religions
The term 'religion' as a discursive term occupies a dominant, but neglected feature of Muslim intellectual reflections since the 19th century. Intellectuals from Muhammad Abduh (he died in 1905) to recent scholars like Nasr Hämid Abü Zayd (he died in 2010) have used religion as a critical term to develop a critique of tradition and modernity, and a strategy for renewal. This discourse may be compared with the study of religion since the 19th cent…
Sermons as Practical and Linguistic Performances
Sermons lend themselves to ambiguous identification in the study of religions. On the one hand, they are easily recognisable practices, delivered on particular days of the week, or when special occasions or needs arise. They are usually given in clearly defined places at clearly defined times. They are given by designated or recognized individuals that vary according to the respective religious traditions. On the other hand, sermons are speech pe…
Dialectical Theology in the Search for Modern Islam
Studies on Islam and modernity have grappled with what has happened to Islam in the modern world.As a tradition, culture, or religion, what has become of Islam since the transformation of the globe through industrialisation, capitalism, and colonialism?Has Islam taken on a new form, or does it continue earlier forms and traditions in essential ways?What are the values promoted by Islam and Muslims in the modern world?Most recent studies on these …
Religion as Culture and Text
Professors David Chidester and Cornelia Roux support the new policy on religion education promulgated in 2003 that emphasises the value of exposing learners to the diversity of religious traditions in the country. In this essay, I identify the frameworks they adopt for the study of religions, and argue that they be further developed for the religion education classroom. I propose that both dynamic discursive traditions (Chidester) and texts (cont…
Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (C. 1880–1940)
Back to the Roots, the Origins and the Beginning
Revival takes on many different forms in Muslim societies. This article explores and identifies a ḥadīth discourse of revival, based on a famous ḥadīth and its commentary that promises renewal at the head of every century. Using an inter-textual analysis, it argues that revival was rooted in the first crisis faced by the early Muslim community when the Prophet died and could no longer personally guide Muslims. Across time and place, the discourse…
Kadhis Courts in Kenya’s Constitutional Review (1998–2010)
Debate over Kadhis courts in the constitutional review process (1998–2010) in Kenya antagonized relations between Muslims and Christians. Generally, Muslims found themselves on the defensive as some Christian groups mounted a sustained campaign against the place of Kadhis courts in the constitution. This paper presents Muslim responses to this public debate in the larger framework of Muslims in the nation-state. Since the 1990s, the Kenyan state …
Al Fārūqī between the History of Religions and Islamic Theology
Ismāʿīl Rājī al Fārūqī (1921–1986) played a considerable role in the academic study of Islam as it was developing in North America in the 1960s and 1970s. This paper is a critical examination of how he employed the categories of religion and religious studies in his scholarly, dialogical, and Islamist work. The paper follows his ideas of religious traditions, their truth claims, and ethical engagement in the world. For Al Fārūqī, these constitute…
Politics and Islamization in African Public Spheres
Public Islam and Muslim publics provide a useful framework for understanding how technology and new social and political contexts have impacted discourses of religion in the public sphere. This article proposes that scholarly attention on Muslim publics has been guided by the different impacts of Wilfred Cantwell Smith and Jürgen Habermas. Smith’s theory of reification has focused attention on the production of Islam(s), while Habermas’s work has…
Bombay Islam
The Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam
For many Muslims, the textual sources of Islam provide the guiding principles on which they base their beliefs. These texts have also been studied by Western scholars of Islam for centuries. Most of their work has focussed on the historicity of the texts, often at the expense of the study of Muslims' highly diverse interpretation and application of these sources in everyday life. This volume provides new insights into the transmission of these so…
Rethinking Islamic Studies
Salafis in Cape Town in Search of Purity, Certainty and Social Impact
Salafism has become part of a public discourse in Cape Town since the last decade of the 20th century. Drawing on extensive interviews with a number of such Salafis and anti-Salafis, this article examines how this search was manifested and then negotiated within the local religious sphere of the city. This article confirms the view presented in the general literature that Salafism represented the aspiration of individuals who desired to chart an …
Divergent Approaches to Religion in Modern Islamic Discourses
This article interrogates some key concepts and categories of religion in contemporary Muslim discourses. It identifies two contrasting approaches that set the framework for negotiating modern challenges for Muslims. The first approach is a critical reading of Islamic sources that emphasizes the personal dimension of belief and devotion. The second associates Islam with a comprehensive culture that brooks little compromise. Between these two, Mus…
Islamic Politics in South Africa between Identity and Utopia
This article identifies three sites of Islamic politics in South Africa for closer and critical analysis and appraisal. It proposes that Islamic politics inscribed an idealistic vision for the future. It promoted a utopian vision that was by definition unattainable. Secondly, the paper argues that Islamic politics was preoccupied with representation, a relentless and somewhat impossible task of representing Islam and Muslims in the public. Utopia…
The Past and Present of African Islam
Among Muslims across the African continent, there is a noticeable turn towards greater compliance with globalizing norms of Islamic behaviour. Beginning from this widespread observation, this article interrogates the changes that lie concealed under the veil of homogeneity. It identifies a complex pattern of identity formation and power politics, cultural conservativism, marginalized syncretism and symbolic exchange. The emergence of a public sph…
Muslim Publics
This conceptual pair, Public Islam and Muslim Publics, forms the cornerstones of this collection of case studies in Islam in Africa. Public Islam refers ... to the highly diverse invocations of Islam as ideas and practices that religious scholars, self-ascribed religious authorities, secular intellectuals, Sufi orders, mothers, students, workers, engineers, and many others make to civic debate and public life. In this “public” capacity, “Islam” m…
Making Sense of Modern Muslim Intellectual History
Muslim Public Claiming Heritage in Post-Apartheid Cape Town
On November 29, 1929, only a month after the stock market crash of 1929, a “great-great-grandson (of Tuan Guru, the then) the Imaum, or Priest, of the Chiappini-Street Mosque,” told a journalist of the Cape Times that: The Circle of Islam around Cape Town and suburbs, prophesied by a holy man of Islam 260 years ago, is now complete. Sketching the circle, the report continued: From Signal Hill, round ZandVleit, Constantia, Bakoven and Robben Islan…
Interview
Islam in South Africa
Becoming Better Muslims
This concise and informative book on Muslims provides a detailed background of Islam in Aceh, Indonesia, and then turns towards an anthropological study in a few villages. The author approaches the
Back to the Roots, the Origins and the Beginning
Revival takes on many different forms in Muslim societies. This article explores and identifies a ḥadīth discourse of revival, based on a famous ḥadīth and its commentary that promises renewal at the head of every century. Using an inter-textual analysis, it argues that revival was rooted in the first crisis faced by the early Muslim community when the Prophet died and could no longer personally guide Muslims. Across time and place, the discourse…
Politics and Islamization in African Public Spheres
Public Islam and Muslim publics provide a useful framework for understanding how technology and new social and political contexts have impacted discourses of religion in the public sphere. This article proposes that scholarly attention on Muslim publics has been guided by the different impacts of Wilfred Cantwell Smith and Jürgen Habermas. Smith’s theory of reification has focused attention on the production of Islam(s), while Habermas’s work has…
Bombay Islam
Islamic Politics in South Africa between Identity and Utopia
This article identifies three sites of Islamic politics in South Africa for closer and critical analysis and appraisal. It proposes that Islamic politics inscribed an idealistic vision for the future. It promoted a utopian vision that was by definition unattainable. Secondly, the paper argues that Islamic politics was preoccupied with representation, a relentless and somewhat impossible task of representing Islam and Muslims in the public. Utopia…
The Transformation of a Historical Tradition
IntroductionSome idea of the past is present in every culture, and historicalconsciousness as an awareness of this past is a distinctive element in totalcultural expression. Hence, it would be a mistake to assume that there wasno historical consciousness among the Arabs predating Islam. However, itwas the religious, political and social transformation of the Arabs throughIslam that motivated an extensive interest in the past and its systematicrec…
Approaches to the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies
This conference was convened by J. H. Dreyer of the Department ofSemitic Studies at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, andthe Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town,South Africa. It was preceded by a banquet, during which the Islamic Studiesprogram of the Department of Religious Studies was introduced to the peopleof Cape Town. Approximately 250 invited guests attended the conference,which was wel…
Islam and the Cultural Accommodation of Social Change
The Paradigm of Knowledge of the Modern Islamic Resurgence
Political and social explanations for the contemporary Islamic resurgenceabound. Most of these, however, are reductionist in that they do notpay attention to the religious component of a clearly religious phenomenon.Without rejecting its social and political locations, I believe theIslamic resurgence represents a paradigm shift involving a major reinterpretationof Islamic sources in the modem world.In the modem world, Muslims draw on a treasure o…
Jihad against drugs in cape town
Islam in South Africa
The author examines the Islamic institutions of South Africa over 200 years, from the first European colony in the 17th century through British colonialism and apartheid. He argues that the Imams' sermons function as symbols of the Word of God and as venues for interpretation of the Qu'ran
Islam in South Africa
Islam in South Africa
Religion, Culture and Identity in a Democratic Society
Muslim Public Claiming Heritage in Post-Apartheid Cape Town
On November 29, 1929, only a month after the stock market crash of 1929, a “great-great-grandson (of Tuan Guru, the then) the Imaum, or Priest, of the Chiappini-Street Mosque,” told a journalist of the Cape Times that: The Circle of Islam around Cape Town and suburbs, prophesied by a holy man of Islam 260 years ago, is now complete. Sketching the circle, the report continued: From Signal Hill, round ZandVleit, Constantia, Bakoven and Robben Islan…
Interview
Interview
Interview
Interview
Muslim Publics
This conceptual pair, Public Islam and Muslim Publics, forms the cornerstones of this collection of case studies in Islam in Africa. Public Islam refers ... to the highly diverse invocations of Islam as ideas and practices that religious scholars, self-ascribed religious authorities, secular intellectuals, Sufi orders, mothers, students, workers, engineers, and many others make to civic debate and public life. In this “public” capacity, “Islam” m…
Making Sense of Modern Muslim Intellectual History
Islamic Politics in South Africa between Identity and Utopia
This article identifies three sites of Islamic politics in South Africa for closer and critical analysis and appraisal. It proposes that Islamic politics inscribed an idealistic vision for the future. It promoted a utopian vision that was by definition unattainable. Secondly, the paper argues that Islamic politics was preoccupied with representation, a relentless and somewhat impossible task of representing Islam and Muslims in the public. Utopia…
The Past and Present of African Islam
Among Muslims across the African continent, there is a noticeable turn towards greater compliance with globalizing norms of Islamic behaviour. Beginning from this widespread observation, this article interrogates the changes that lie concealed under the veil of homogeneity. It identifies a complex pattern of identity formation and power politics, cultural conservativism, marginalized syncretism and symbolic exchange. The emergence of a public sph…
Divergent Approaches to Religion in Modern Islamic Discourses
This article interrogates some key concepts and categories of religion in contemporary Muslim discourses. It identifies two contrasting approaches that set the framework for negotiating modern challenges for Muslims. The first approach is a critical reading of Islamic sources that emphasizes the personal dimension of belief and devotion. The second associates Islam with a comprehensive culture that brooks little compromise. Between these two, Mus…
The Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam
For many Muslims, the textual sources of Islam provide the guiding principles on which they base their beliefs. These texts have also been studied by Western scholars of Islam for centuries. Most of their work has focussed on the historicity of the texts, often at the expense of the study of Muslims' highly diverse interpretation and application of these sources in everyday life. This volume provides new insights into the transmission of these so…
Rethinking Islamic Studies
Salafis in Cape Town in Search of Purity, Certainty and Social Impact
Salafism has become part of a public discourse in Cape Town since the last decade of the 20th century. Drawing on extensive interviews with a number of such Salafis and anti-Salafis, this article examines how this search was manifested and then negotiated within the local religious sphere of the city. This article confirms the view presented in the general literature that Salafism represented the aspiration of individuals who desired to chart an …
Politics and Islamization in African Public Spheres
Public Islam and Muslim publics provide a useful framework for understanding how technology and new social and political contexts have impacted discourses of religion in the public sphere. This article proposes that scholarly attention on Muslim publics has been guided by the different impacts of Wilfred Cantwell Smith and Jürgen Habermas. Smith’s theory of reification has focused attention on the production of Islam(s), while Habermas’s work has…
Bombay Islam
Kadhis Courts in Kenya’s Constitutional Review (1998–2010)
Debate over Kadhis courts in the constitutional review process (1998–2010) in Kenya antagonized relations between Muslims and Christians. Generally, Muslims found themselves on the defensive as some Christian groups mounted a sustained campaign against the place of Kadhis courts in the constitution. This paper presents Muslim responses to this public debate in the larger framework of Muslims in the nation-state. Since the 1990s, the Kenyan state …
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