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An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the island of Ja

As the availability and use of media platforms continue to expand, the cultural visibility of religion is on the rise, leading to questions about religious auth

Introduction: Cultivating Islam -- Part I. Authority in Motion: 1. Figures -- 2. Texts -- 3. Institutions -- Part II. Assembling Authority: 4. Itineraries -- 5.

In Pakistan, religious talk shows emerged as a popular television genre following the 2002 media liberalization reforms. Since then, these shows have become imp

Focuses on Middle Eastern Muslim majority societies in the period from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. This work contains papers which highlight the