Professor Kevin Reinhart @dartmouth speaking about Lived Islam, culture and practice as keynote starting our #CentrefortheStudyofIslam workshop @ExeterIAIS as critique of ‘essentialist’ #Islam
A prominent approach on discursive traditions that is still surprisingly ‘orthodox’ on the centrality of #Quran and #Hadith
Maybe more productive is to consider Islam like a language and its variations in #cosmopolitanism and calques in #sociolinguistics
Contrast of #standardIslam and #dialectIslam
Defining #standardIslam as #CosmopolitanIslam as has no specific space and time but transcends historical and cultural particularity - but in fact this is rather thin as absence of real lifecycle rituals
This is a notion of #CosmopolitanIslam which I guess one would associate with #Salafism
#dialectIslam allows for indigenisation and both global and local
What tends to bind Muslims especially are rituals
Standard rituals like #Hajj are actually koines and still vary
Plenty of push back on this especially by referring to #tradition as it is considered in #MacIntyre and extended by #Mahmood and #Hirschkind
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