Anthropological (Ethnographic) approach to Muslim societies: theory and practice

Irina A. Selezneva (Russia, Omsk, the Russian Institute of cultural studies) 

Alexander G. Seleznev (Russia, Omsk, Institute of archeology and ethnography of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Science) The test for an Islam: ethnographic studying of religious tradition at the present time (on an example of rural settlements of Tobol-Irtysh Tatars)

K. Faisal (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India). Mistaken Textuality: Anthropology's challenge in approaching Muslim societies

Dmitry V. Makarov (Faezkhanov Islamic institute, “Medina” Publ. House, Moscow-Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia) Ethnographic methods of studying an Islam in the Russian Federation during the soviet period (an experience of preparing of Islam in the Russian Federation encyclopedic dictionaries series)

Marat A. Safarov (Moscow, Russia) Using of oral narrative during the studying of Muslim community history in Moscow at the Soviet period

Grigory A. Karpov (Institute of African Studies, Moscow, Russia) The specific features of the British ethnic statistics  concerning studying of Muslim communities of Great Britain of second half of the 20th century

Iwona Kaliszewska(Poland) Anthropological approach towards studying “everyday Islam” on the example of Dagestan

Maria Louw (Aarhus University, Denmark) Anthropological approaches to Suficism

Ketevan Khutsishvili (Tbilisi State University, Georgia) Naqshbandiya Tariqah in Georgia: theology and practice

Mohsen Keiany (Birmingham City University, Great Britain) Nomadic architecture of Baluchistan

Galina S. Solodova (Institute of philosophy and the law of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russia) About a sociality of Islam

Nadja Thoma (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Austria) Rapping for Allah. Muslim identities in Europe

Shahnoza Madaeva (Tashkent National University, Uzbekistan) Formation of religious identity of a traditional society of Uzbekistan: historical aspect

Dina Wilkowsky (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany) Islam in post-Soviet Kazakhstan: In Search of New Representations

Ekaterina A. Hodzhaeva (Kazan State Technical University, Russia) Muslim youth – to change, or to understand?

Lily V. Sagitova (Mardjani Institute of History, Kazan, Russia) An «old» and a «new» Islam: the sociological bases of differentiation (the Case-Study: village Srednyaya Elyuzan’)

Ljubomir P. Mikov (Bulgaria, Sofia, Institute of Ethnology and folklore studies with an ethnographic museum).The jam institution among the heterodox Moslems in Bulgaria

 

Description of the panel

The panel is aimed to discuss anthropology as a method of study of Muslim societies which helps to understand real forms of Islamic religious practice and the very conception of Islam at the local Muslim communities worldwide. An importance of this is clearly evident because of growth of interest to Islam on the local level.

Besides that, anthropological approaches can help researchers and society in general to set problems which are usually out of discussion among “classical Islamicists”, e.g. those, who mainly are focusing on textual sources and documents.

However, those problems are actual and helpful from the point of view of further development of research activities. We are planning to discuss theoretical problems of anthropology of Islam as well as practical methods and results of particular studies.

 

Conveners:

Dr. Irina A. Selezneva (the Russian Institute for Cultural Research, Siberian branch, Omsk)

Dr. Alexander G. Seleznev (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian branch, Omsk)