Methodologies of the Everyday in South Asian Islam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7475172 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harini Kumar (0000-0003-2302-5828), Agostino Lanzillo (0000-0003-1688-4413), Amanda Lanzillo |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-12 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1089-201X • E-ISSN: 1548-226X |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/1089201x-12354761 |
| OpenAlex | W7124180198 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
This introduction to the special section “Methodologies of the Everyday in South Asian Islam: Beyond Received Frameworks” explores how “the everyday” has been used conceptually across disciplines such as anthropology, history, and religious studies in the study of Islam. Through this special section, the authors argue for renewed focus on the methodologies of studying the everyday, and they assert the importance of studies of Islam in South Asia to this project. The introduction connects the interventions of the six articles in the special section, which demonstrate how scholars across disciplines use the everyday as theory and method, and it provides examples of how scholars might engage cross-disciplinary perspectives. Recognizing the well-established and extensive literature on Islam and the everyday, the introduction and the special section as a whole insist on the continued relevance of the everyday and highlight the need for increased attention to the varied methodologies that elucidate it
Asian studies · Everyday life · Islam · Relevance (law · Section (typography · South asia · Special section · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian Studies and History · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development
Gendered Morality
Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt
Introduction
The Making of Working-Class Religion
Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia
Popular culture, radical egalitarianism, and formations of Muslim selfhood in South Asia
Casteist demons and working-class prophets
Area Studies and the crisis of legitimacy
Boundary displacement
Rediscovering the “everyday” Muslim
Conversion as Translation and Transference
Everyday Muslim Labor in Pashto “Books of Trade
Restoring Mosques, Preserving History
Postscript
Fazlur Rahman and the Recalcitrant Everyday
Inheritance in the Archive
Space, Theory, and Hegemony
Inter-Asian Concepts for Mobile Societies
The History of Everyday Life
The Afterlife of Gender
Of Children and Jinn
Purity, Soul Food, and Sunni Islam
A Kidnapping in Basra
Shadowing history
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |