What are We to Do with ‘Muslim Subjectivity’? Prospects and Pitfalls of the Research Approach in a Historiographical Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6164805 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olga Iu Bessmertnaia (0000-0003-4588-1035, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 174-187 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | RUDN Journal of Russian History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2312-8674 • E-ISSN: 2312-8690 |
| Publisher | Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PUBLISHER • RU) |
| DOI | 10.22363/2312-8674-2023-22-2-174-187 |
| OpenAlex | W4380987783 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
The author discusses, in the historiographical context, problems posed by the growing wave of research on the “history of Muslim subjectivity.” Noting the paradoxical danger of the reorientalization of and the loss of historicity in Islamic studies, the author insists on the importance of the very designation of the emerging approach and suggests as a more correct term “history of Muslim subjectivities”. Some aspects of the nowadays’ interpretations of the interaction between the individual and the social and cultural in history, of the role of agency and subjecthood of historical actors are considered, as well as the correlation between persona studies and studies of the “techniques of the self.” Proceeding from the approaches that presume the “return of the subject,” the author emphasizes the expediency, for the studies of Muslim subjectivities, of microhistorical approaches, in particular, the “pragmatic turn” and the Russian version of microhistory with its characteristic attention to the individual and its complex vision of the historical context
Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Historicity (philosophy · Historiography · Islam · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Education and Islamic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy
Culture
Muslim Subjectivities in Global Modernity
Affect, Emotion, and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires
Introduction
Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities
The Formation of Modern Muslim Subjectivities
Self and Others
Introduction
What Is Islamic History
Tensions within culture
Working, Struggling, Becoming
The Predicament of Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |