Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Except this time, within this new, muscular, postcolonial hospitality, the erstwhile settler gets to play gracious host.
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The interview “Nourishing Hospitality,” conducted by Jolyon Mitchell with author and scholar Mona Siddiqui, is not only a useful introduction…
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Renewal takes place when two sources of knowledge—of the world and of scripture—collide.
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While some Indonesian politicians and religious leaders jockey for Saudi praise, others bemoan Saudi Arabia as a kingdom which has gone astray from Islam’s true religious principles, whose exported Wahhabi theology threatens Indonesian national integrity, and whose wealthy citizens have been accused of torturing their Indonesian housemaids.
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Designer clothing brands that cater to Muslim consumers in the Middle East have mushroomed, in spite of the fact that some of this clothing is manufactured in Muslim-unfriendly countries.
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Even when driven only by profits, corporate producers of consumer goods inevitably deploy the cultural power of their brands to offer recognition to minority consumers.
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While Muslims as believers might focus on halal in the context of the global market as the realm that enables them to exert theological, cultural, and political agency against Western modernity, the impulses that shape their theological orientations and religious acts seem quite aligned with some aspects of that modernity.
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Does an increase in everyday piety through “brand Islam” simultaneously and necessarily weaken the authority of Islamic religious institutions?
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The blend of fashion and tesettur has undermined the monotone divide of Islam and modernity, a divide that delineated how a Muslim female can (and should) live, what public spaces she can enter, and what activities she can take part in.
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Widespread product “halalization” contributes to novel modes of self-described piety, yet implies a pro-consumptive “deregulation” of religion.
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