Between Muslims : religious difference in Iraqi Kurdistan / J. Andrew Bush.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bush, J. Andrew, author.

Series:

Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Religious life--Iraq--Kurdistān.

Muslims.

Islam--Iraq--Kurdistān--Customs and practices.

Islam.

Irreligion--Iraq--Kurdistān.

Irreligion.

Islamic ethics--Iraq--Kurdistān.

Islamic ethics.

Kurds--Iraq--Kurdistān--Religion.

Kurds.

Religion.

Muslims--Religious life.

Kurdistan--Religious life and customs.

Kurdistan.

Islam--Customs and practices.

Kurds--Religion.

Iraq--Kurdistān.

Physical Description:

xv, 216 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This book asks what it means to be Muslim, yet not pious, in Iraqi Kurdistan. Though Islam is often represented in terms of either daily devotion, such as prayer and fasting, or abandonment of faith, there are many who turn away from tradition without departing from Islam. J. Andrew Bush offers us a new way to understand religious difference in Islam, one that invites questions about divine texts and rejects easy answers about political or sectarian identities. Exploring the lives of irreligious Muslims, Bush highlights the paradoxes of their ethical orientation. While profoundly averse to many aspects of Islamic traditions, irreligious Muslims nonetheless harbor attractions to other aspects--such as Sufi poetry. Exploring this complex weave of attraction and aversion, Relating to Islam in Kurdistan provides intimate portraits of irreligious Kurdish Muslims in everyday life and the historical conditions that have allowed such paradoxical religious orientations to appear very ordinary in contemporary Kurdistan. Whether readers approach the book as Muslims with a commitment to Islam, or as Muslims with ambivalence to Islam, or as non-Muslims who bear their own forms of certainty or ambivalence about Islam, the book will open to the door to thinking about the relationship between commitment and ambivalence in Islamic traditions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : fieldwork in Kurdistan : paradox, ordinary relationships, and Islamic traditions

Qur'an and Zoroaster : authority and attraction in Muslim ethics

Christians, kafirs, and nationalists in Kurdish poetry

Mystical desire, ordinary desire : love, friendship, and kinship

Separating faith and kufir in an Islamic society

Pleasure beyond piety : religious difference in domestic space

Epilogue: "Dear reader!"

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bush, J. Andrew, Between muslims

ISBN:

9781503614581

9781503611436

1503611434

1503614581

OCLC:

1138673345

Publisher Number:

99985329296