As through a glass darkly
Rethinking sincerity through the lens of ikhlāṣ
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2230351 |
|---|---|
| Authors | I Hartmann (0000-0001-7977-4700, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), Matthew C Carey (0000-0003-3411-0657, University of Copenhagen), Matthew Carey (0000-0003-2960-242X) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 719-732 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/732474 |
| OpenAlex | W4404432229 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
Standard Euro-American ideas of sincerity revolve around an idea of the transparent alignment of one's outer acts with the inner self, such that the audience can clearly deduce the latter from the former. The development and spread of such ideas has been widely linked to the emergence of modern subjectivity. This article expands upon these analyses, contrasting them with Islamic notions of sincerity (ikhlāṣ) which is predicated not on transparency, but on purity of intention. This apparently minor difference has significant implications: it allows for sincerity to be opaque or deceptive; it gestures towards radically different technologies of self-formation; and it questions the facile and widespread elision of modernity with a particular version of sincerity
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Politics of Piety
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Agents of Grace
Thinking through the heart
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Taqiyya as Polemic, Law and Knowledge
Ritual and Its Consequences
Sources of the self
The Fethullah Gülen movement and politics in Turkey
The sincere subject
Kultur and Culture
Christian Moderns
Islamist Mobilization in Turkey
Sincerity, "Modernity," and the Protestants
Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual
Languages without subjects
God values intentions
Unbundling sincerity
Affective spaces, melancholic objects
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From Fetishism to Sincerity
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |