Editors-in-Chief: Gary Wood, Virginia Tech and Tugrul Keskin, Shanghai University

Publisher: Brill

A new issue of the Sociology of Islam (SOI) has been published.

The Sociology of Islam (SOI) explores modern social, political and economic transformations in Muslim Societies through the lens of sociological analysis, social theory, industrialization, modernity, social movements, secularism and political economy. It provides a unique sociological approach in addition to a multi-disciplinary approach.

Table of Contents

• Articles

– A Manifesto: The Meaning of Sociology of Islam, Muslim Societies, the “Middle East” and the Human Rights Industry, by Tugrul Keskin
– Islam. The Meaning of Style, Pierre Hecker
– African American Twelver Shia Community of New York, by Abbas Aghdassi and Seyed Mohammad Marandi
– Society in Qatar before the Oil Industry in Light of Archaeological Evidence, by Moain Sadeq
– Texts as Objects of Value and Veneration, by Mahmood Kooria

• Book Reviews

– Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey, written by Jeremy F. Walton; By Sabine Dreher
– Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace, written by Sloane-White, Patricia; By Aaron Z. Pitluck

Source: Brill Online

Editors-in-Chief: Gary Wood, Virginia Tech and Tugrul Keskin, Shanghai University

Guest Editors: Ray Jureidini and Sari Hanafi

Publisher: Brill

Sociology of Islam (SOI) provides an international scholarly forum for research related to the religion and culture of Islam, Muslim societies, and social issues related to Muslims in socio-political context. Decidedly rooted in the sociological perspective, SOI takes an expansive and global view of this broad subject matter.

SOI publishes multiple issues per year containing original peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the sociological, political, anthropological, historical and other aspects of Islam and Muslim societies across all times and places. By promoting an academic understanding of the richly variegated and complex nature of both majority Muslim societies and of the issues related to the minority status of Muslims in other social contexts, in both thought and practice, Sociology of Islam makes a distinctive contribution to current scholarship in the field of sociology.

Table of Contents

• Special Issue on Immigration, Political Economy and Islam

by Ray Jureidini

• Gulf Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis

by Sari Hanafi

• Shari‘ah Law and Capitulations Governing the Non-Muslim Foreign Merchants in the Ottoman Empire

by Abdul Ghaffar Mughal and Larbi Sadiki

• The Socio-economic Aspects of hijra

by Latife Reda

• Islam and Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Qatar

by Jawad Syed

• The “Humane Economy”: Migrant Labour and Islam in Qatar and the UAE

by Zahra Babar

• The Convergence of Migrants and Refugees

by Ray Jureidini and Latife Reda

Read more at: Brill Online