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