Halevi Modern Things on Trial

Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54797-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

In cities awakening to global exchange under European imperial rule, Muslims encountered all sorts of strange and wonderful new things—synthetic toothbrushes, toilet paper, telegraphs, railways, gramophones, brimmed hats, tailored pants, and lottery tickets. The passage of these goods across cultural frontiers spurred passionate debates. Realizing that these goods were changing religious practices and values, proponents and critics wondered what to outlaw and what to permit.

In this book, Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He focuses on the communications of an entrepreneurial Syrian interpreter of the shari'a named Rashid Rida, who became a renowned reformer by responding to the demand for authoritative and authentic religious advice. Upon migrating to Egypt, Rida founded an Islamic magazine, The Lighthouse, which cultivated an educated, prosperous readership within and beyond the British Empire. To an audience eager to know if their scriptures sanctioned particular interactions with particular objects, he preached the message that by rediscovering Islam’s foundational spirit, the global community of Muslims would thrive and realize modernity’s religious and secular promises.

Through analysis of Rida’s international correspondence, Halevi argues that religious entanglements with new commodities and technologies were the driving forces behind local and global projects to reform the Islamic legal tradition. Shedding light on culture, commerce, and consumption in Cairo and other colonial cities, Modern Things on Trial is a groundbreaking account of Islam’s material transformation in a globalizing era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halevi, Leor

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps and Figures
Acknowledgments

Prologue: The Parable of the Montgolfière and the Translation of Haleby’s Corpse
Introduction: Good Things Made Lawful: Euro-Muslim Objects and Laissez-Faire Fatwas
1. The Toilet Paper Fatwa: Hygienic Innovation and the Sacred Law in the Late Imperial Era
2. Fatwas for the Partners’ Club: A Global Mufti’s Enterprise
3. In a Material World: European Expansion from Tripoli to Cairo
4 Paper Money and Consummate Men: Capitalism and the Rise of Laissez-Faire Salafism
5. The Qur'an in the Gramophone: Sounds of Islamic Modernity from Cairo to Kazan
6. Telegraphs, Photographs, Railways, Law Codes: Tools of Empire, Tools of Islam
7. Arabian Slippers: The Turn to Nationalistic Consumption
8. Lottery Tickets, Luxury Hotels, and Christian Experts: Economic Liberalism Versus Islamic Exclusivism in a Territorial Framework
Conclusions

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Halevi Leor :

Leor Halevi (PhD, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard) is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Muhammad’s Grave (Columbia, 2007) and the coeditor (with Francesca Trivellato) of Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900 (Oxford, 2014).Leor Halevi is associate professor of history and law at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Muhammad’s Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Columbia, 2007).