Abbas Barzegar
Biographic Data
| ID | 5581412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abbas Barzegar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abbas |
| FAMILY NAME | Barzegar |
| SIGNATURE | BARZEGAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Praxis Gap
This essay explores the problem of the “praxis gap,” which can be understood as the epistemological space between academic and practitioner discourses engaged in the study and practice of issues along the aid and development spectrum. It does so by discussing the way practitioners approach the topic of Islam and Muslim practices vis‐à‐vis the problem of Female Genital Cutting or Mutilation (FGC/M) and in light of the geopolitical context surround…
Centering Muslims in Global Humanitarianism and Development
Islamism
“Adhering to the Community” ( Luzūm al-Jamāʿa )
This article addresses the early formation of Sunni “orthodoxy” through the prisms of historical memory and collective identity rather than those of theology, law, and formal political power. 2 It does so by exploring the socio-political context in which the phrase luzūm al-jamāʿa 3 (adhering to the community) was deployed during the late Umayyad/Marwanid (64/684–132/750) and early Abbasid (132/750–333/945) periods, primarily among the networks o…
Charisma and Community in the Aesthetics of Political Islam
This article argues that the contemporary political moment, which contextualizes the study of Islam in Western universities and beyond, exacerbates long-held anxieties in social theory regarding the relationship between charisma and political community. Mature secular democracies, it is assumed, should be void of the passion and mass mobilization that often emerge from the charismatic, be it embodied by an individual or routinized in institutions…
The Missing Martyrs
Rarely does a topic of controversial concern such as “Muslim terrorism” receive the attention of a seasoned specialist with decades of expertise. Such is the greatest strength of Charles Kurzman's latest monograph, The Missing Martyrs. Here, Kurzman interrogates common presumptions that permeate both academic and popular conceptions about Muslim terrorists and their relationship to the Islamic tradition. With a balanced and accessible tone, he po…
Discourse, Identity, and Community
The Persistence of Heresy
This article analyzes the way in which a distinctly Sunni Islamic identity establishes its internal and external borders at the intersection of the historical perceptions of Christianity and Judaism on the one hand and Shiism on the other. It is argued that community identity — performed here through the label of the Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jamāa , literally “People of the Prophetic precedent and the community” — is constituted in large part by a grand…
Discourse, Identity, and Community
The Persistence of Heresy
This article analyzes the way in which a distinctly Sunni Islamic identity establishes its internal and external borders at the intersection of the historical perceptions of Christianity and Judaism on the one hand and Shiism on the other. It is argued that community identity — performed here through the label of the Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jamāa , literally “People of the Prophetic precedent and the community” — is constituted in large part by a grand…
Centering Muslims in Global Humanitarianism and Development
Discourse, Identity, and Community
The Persistence of Heresy
This article analyzes the way in which a distinctly Sunni Islamic identity establishes its internal and external borders at the intersection of the historical perceptions of Christianity and Judaism on the one hand and Shiism on the other. It is argued that community identity — performed here through the label of the Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jamāa , literally “People of the Prophetic precedent and the community” — is constituted in large part by a grand…
The Missing Martyrs
Rarely does a topic of controversial concern such as “Muslim terrorism” receive the attention of a seasoned specialist with decades of expertise. Such is the greatest strength of Charles Kurzman's latest monograph, The Missing Martyrs. Here, Kurzman interrogates common presumptions that permeate both academic and popular conceptions about Muslim terrorists and their relationship to the Islamic tradition. With a balanced and accessible tone, he po…
Charisma and Community in the Aesthetics of Political Islam
This article argues that the contemporary political moment, which contextualizes the study of Islam in Western universities and beyond, exacerbates long-held anxieties in social theory regarding the relationship between charisma and political community. Mature secular democracies, it is assumed, should be void of the passion and mass mobilization that often emerge from the charismatic, be it embodied by an individual or routinized in institutions…
“Adhering to the Community” ( Luzūm al-Jamāʿa )
This article addresses the early formation of Sunni “orthodoxy” through the prisms of historical memory and collective identity rather than those of theology, law, and formal political power. 2 It does so by exploring the socio-political context in which the phrase luzūm al-jamāʿa 3 (adhering to the community) was deployed during the late Umayyad/Marwanid (64/684–132/750) and early Abbasid (132/750–333/945) periods, primarily among the networks o…
Islamism
A Praxis Gap
This essay explores the problem of the “praxis gap,” which can be understood as the epistemological space between academic and practitioner discourses engaged in the study and practice of issues along the aid and development spectrum. It does so by discussing the way practitioners approach the topic of Islam and Muslim practices vis‐à‐vis the problem of Female Genital Cutting or Mutilation (FGC/M) and in light of the geopolitical context surround…
Centering Muslims in Global Humanitarianism and Development
Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Islam (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)