Islam L.A. style: Talking back to America through Islamic discourses
Islam style: Talking back to America through Islamic discourses In this article, I explore distinct ways in which Iranian American mosque-goers in Southern California understand and define Islam. I argue…
“Today, we teach the kids where we are from”: Event filmmaking and diasporic home-making among Indian Muslims in North America
“Today, we teach the kids where we are from”: Event filmmaking and diasporic home-making among Indian Muslims in North America How do people make themselves at home in situations of…
Facets of charity: Muslim ethics, postcolonial dynamics, and community-making in Portugal
Facets of charity: Muslim ethics, postcolonial dynamics, and community-making in Portugal This article examines the networks of charity developed by Muslims to discuss community-making in Portugal. Giving allows donors to…
Afterword
Afterword In this afterword, I consider the important contributions this special section makes to the study of the relations between immanence, transcendence, and mediation in the study of Islam and…
Dreaming the path: Ontological shifts in a Sufi order in Afghanistan
Dreaming the path: Ontological shifts in a Sufi order in Afghanistan This article examines dream practices among a Sufi community in present-day Afghanistan. The main argument revolves around the question…
“What does the heart want?”: Being seen, “heart ethnography,” and knowledge through surrender in a Bashkir Sufi circle in Russia
“What does the heart want?”: Being seen, “heart ethnography,” and knowledge through surrender in a Bashkir Sufi circle in Russia Drawing on fieldwork in a Bashkir Sufi circle in Russia,…
Home in exile: Palestinianness as moral subjunctive destination
Home in exile: Palestinianness as moral subjunctive destination This article explores the polyvocal and inherently contested arena of Palestinianness as a moral place of belonging, for which I suggest the…
Introduction: Movement, faith, and home in Muslim communities in the diaspora
Introduction: Movement, faith, and home in Muslim communities in the diaspora Here we introduce a special section that spans this and the next issue of Hau. The articles in the…
Voicing God’s presence: Qurʾānic recitation, Sufi ontologies, and the theatro-graphic experience
Voicing God’s presence: Qurʾānic recitation, Sufi ontologies, and the theatro-graphic experience This article examines Qurʾānic recitation as a modality of divine presence among Bā ʿAlawī Sufis in Tarīm (Yemen) and…
Staying behind: Divine presence, virtuous emplacement, and sabr at the end of life among older Kyrgyz Muslims
Staying behind: Divine presence, virtuous emplacement, and sabr at the end of life among older Kyrgyz Muslims Drawing on fieldwork among older Kyrgyz people who become old in the absence…
God is everywhere: Islam, Christianity, and the immanence of transcendence
God is everywhere: Islam, Christianity, and the immanence of transcendence This article weaves together major lines of inquiry in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam to consider how to approach…
Rethinking the anthropological enterprise in light of Muslim ontologies: Secular vestiges, spiritual epistemologies, vertical knowledge
Rethinking the anthropological enterprise in light of Muslim ontologies: Secular vestiges, spiritual epistemologies, vertical knowledge Because of the difficulty anthropology continues to face in relinquishing its secular vestiges, field encounters…
Ethnographies of the unseen
Ethnographies of the unseen Go to Source
Beyond breadth: The tyranny of empty noise
Beyond breadth: The tyranny of empty noise Go to Source
Expanded visions and beyond
Expanded visions and beyond Go to Source
Fifty years of resistance on film: First Nations media and a cinema of sovereignty
Fifty years of resistance on film: First Nations media and a cinema of sovereignty Go to Source
Untitled: A rejoinder to Expanded visions
Untitled: A rejoinder to Expanded visions Go to Source
The collideroscopic sensorium
The collideroscopic sensorium Go to Source
Expanding visual practices—Destabilizing ethnographic knowledge
Expanding visual practices—Destabilizing ethnographic knowledge Go to Source
Mirroring mirrors: Mimetic responses to expanded visions
Mirroring mirrors: Mimetic responses to expanded visions Go to Source