Open AccessBourdieu and Historical Analysis
Author(s) -
Jibreel Delgado
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
american journal of islam and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2690-3741
pISSN - 2690-3733
DOI - 10.35632/ajis.v31i4.1077
Subject(s) - islam , dissent , relevance (law) , epistemology , sociology , islamic studies , religious studies , philosophy , political science , law , theology , politics
Many scholars, among them Omar S. Kasule (“Islamic Epistemology andIntegration of Knowledge in the Islamic University” [2009]) and Fathi HasanMalkawi (Epistemological Integration: Essentials of an Islamic Methodology[2014]) call for the epistemological integration of knowledge. I seek to answerthis call, in part, by demonstrating the relevance of Pierre Bourdieu’s(d. 2002) theory to the study of Islam, Muslims, and Islamic movements.One precedent in this direction is Stephane Lacroix’s Awakening Islam: ThePolitics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia (2011), whichstudies the Saudi Sahwa movement from the 1950s to the 1990s. I contendthat studies of Islam must go even further in this direction. As this approachdeserves our attention, I will present Bourdieu’s theory to those who studyIslam and Muslims ...