Islam through Objects

Anna Bigelow is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University, USA.

• Introduction: Thinking with Islamic Things, Anna Bigelow (Stanford University, USA)Part I: Tracing Images1. Clothes of Righteousness: The MGT Uniform in the 20th Century, Kayla Renee Wheeler (Grand Valley State University, USA)2. The Masonic Muhammad: Modern Franco-Iranian Visual Encounters in Prophetic Iconography, Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan, USA)3. Relic Reproduction: Tracing the Lives of Muhammad’s Sandal, Richard McGregor (Vanderbilt University, USA)Part II: Identifying Objects4. “The Greatest and Only Flag Known”: The Lapel Pin in American Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight (University of Central Florida, USA)5. Tasbih in West African Islamic History: Spirituality, Aesthetics, Politics, and Identity, Ousman Murzik Kobo (Ohio State University, USA)6. Caps, Heads, and Hearts, Scott Kugle (Emory University, USA)Part III: Objects in Practice7. What Comes to Light When a Lamp Is Lit in Bektashi Tradition, Mark Soileau (Haceteppe University, Turkey)8. The Agency of the Material Taviz (Amulet) in a South Indian Healing Room, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger (Emory University, USA)9. The Life of a Tablet, Aomar Boum (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)Part IV: Circulatory Systems10. Coins and Fish: Sovereignty, Economy, and Religion in the Islamicate Indian Ocean, Roxani Margariti (Emory University, USA)11. The Aljibe del Rey, D. Fairchild Ruggles (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)12. Zamzam Water: Scales of Environmentality and Decolonizing Material Islam, Anna Gade (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)BibliographyIndex

This is a fascinating and often surprising contribution to the Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion.