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Work in Progress Seminar
“Islam Observed” Revisited
Dr Jeremy Kingsley
6th March 2014, 6pm
First Floor Common Lounge
Register at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io
I am beginning a major research project on the interaction between the people and ideas of the Middle East and Southeast Asia. I turned to the seminal comparative anthropological work Islam Observed by Clifford Geertz. This book investigates two Muslim communities and their practical, ritual and textual lives. Although still a force to be reckoned with in anthropological and religious studies debates, Islam Observed providers a particularly problematic assessment of two nations, Indonesia and Morocco, and their respective applications of Islam. At a time of great political and social transformation across the eclectic and culturally diverse Muslim world, I will discuss my re-working of one of Geertz’s seminal works.
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