Recent Ethnographies of Islam in South
Asia
Contributed
by Kerry San Chirico, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ahmad, Imtiaz and Reifeld, Helmut, eds. Lived in Islam in South Asia:
Adaptation, Accommodation and Conflict. Delhi: Social Sciences Press,
2004.
Assayaj, Jackie. At the Confluence of Two Rivers: Muslims and Hindus in
South India. Delhi: Manohar, 2004.
Ernst, Carl W. and Lawrence, Bruce, eds. Sufi Martyrs of Love: The
Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond. New York: Palmgrave Macmillan,
2002.
Ewing, Katherine. Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and
Islam. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter. In Amma’s Healing Room: Islam, Gender,
and Religious Identities in South India. Bloomington: University of
Indiana Press, 2006.
Gottschalk, Peter. Beyond Hindu and Muslim. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2000.
Khan, Sila-Dominique. Conversions and Shifting Identities: Ramdev Pir
and the Ismailis in Rajasthan. New Delhi: Manohar, 1997.
__________.Crossing the Threshold: Understanding Religious Identities
in South Asia. London and New York: I.B. Taurus, 2004.
Kumar, Nita. The Artisans of Banaras: Popular Culture and Identity,
1880-1986. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
_________. Kumar, Nita. “Work and Leisure in the Formation of
Identity: Muslim Weavers in a Hindu City” in Sandria B. Freitag, ed.
Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance, and Environment,
1800-1980,147-170. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
Mayaram, Shail. “Spirit Possession: Reframing Discourses of the Self
and the Other” in La Possession en Asie du sud: Parole, Corps,
Territorie in Assayag, Jackie and Tarabout, Gilles, 101-132. Paris:
Editions de L’Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1999.
Marsden, Magnus. Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan’s
North-West Frontier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Openshaw, Jeanne. Seeking the Bauls of Bengal. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
Pemberton, Kelly. “Muslim Women and Female Spiritual Authority in
South Asian Sufism” in Stewart, Pamela and Strathern, Andrew, eds.
Contesting Rituals: Islam and Practices of Identity-Making. Durham:
Carolina Academic Press, 2005.
Pinault, David. Horse of Karbala: Muslim Devotional Life in India. New
York: Palgrave, 2001.
Rafiuddin, Ahmed. Understanding the Bengal Muslims: Interpretive
Essays. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Ring, Laura A. Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building.
Bloomington and Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 2006.
Schubel, Vernon James. Religious Performance in Contemporary Islam:
Shii Devotional Rituals in South Asia. Columbia: University of South
Carolina Press, 1993.
Sikand, Yoginder. Hindu-Muslim Syncretic Shrines in Karnataka.
Bangalore: Himayat, 2001.
Simpson, Edward. Muslims Society and the Western Indian Ocean: The
Seafarers of Kachchh. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Waseem, M., trans. and ed. On Becoming Muslim: French Essays on Aspects
of Syncretism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Werbner, Pnina. Pilgrims of Love: The Anthropology of a Global Sufi
Cult. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.
Werbner, Pnina, and Basu, Helene, eds. Embodying Charisma: Modernity,
Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults. New York: Routledge,
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