James Piscatori

Bio: James Piscatori is an academic researcher from Australian National University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Islam & Politics. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 25 publications receiving 753 citations.

Muslim travellers: pilgrimage, migration, and the religious imagination

Abstract: Focusing on travel in Muslim societies from Malaysia to West Africa to Western Europe from the first centuries of Islam to the present, the contributors to this edition investigate the role of religious doctrine in motivating travel While pilgrimage is usually seen as travel with a uniquely religious purpose, this exploration of the role of travel in Muslim societies and in Islamic doctrine shows that other forms of travel - for learning, visits to shrines, exile, and labor migration - also shape the religious imagination Conversely, travel for specifically religious purposes often has important economic and political consequences The contributors explore the transnational and local significance of pilgrimage and migration, showing how these journeys heighten a universal sense of 'being Muslim' while also inspiring the redefinition of the frontiers of sect, language, territory, and nation In this way, encounters with Muslim 'others' have been as important in shaping community self-definition as encounters with European 'others' Linking pilgrimage and migration to issues such as class, ethnicity, and gender, "Muslim Travellers" will be of special value to students of history and anthropology and to those in cross-disciplinary courses such as Islamic civilization and world religions

Transnational Religion And Fading States

Abstract: * Preface: Religion, States, and Transnational Civil Society Susanne Hoeber Rudolph. Self-Organization: From Society And From Below * Trans-state Islam and Security Dale F. Eickelman * Muslim Missionaries and African States Ousmane Kane * Bridging the Gap Between Empowerment and Power in Latin America Daniel H. Levine and David Stoll * Faces of Catholic Transnationalism: In and Beyond France Danille Hervieu-Lger, translated by Roger Gleason Hierarchy: From A Center And From Above * Globalizing Catholicism and the Return to a Universal Church Jos Casanova * World Religions and National States: Competing Claims in East Asia Don Baker * Religious Resource Networks: Roman Catholic Philanthropy in Central and East Europe Ralph Della Cava * In Defense of Allahs Realm: Religion and Statecraft in Saudi Foreign Policy Strategy Cary Fraser Reflections * Dehomogenizing Religious Formations S. H. Rudolph

Islam in a World of Nation-States

Abstract: List of illustrations Preface 1. Interpreting Islam in the modern world 2. The nature of the Islamic revival 3. The theory and practice of territorial pluralism 4. The modern intellectual consensus on the nation-state 5. Nonconformist thinking on the nation-state 6. Development and the Muslim nation-state 7. Conclusion Chronology of the Muslim world Glossary Notes Index.

Islam in the Political Process

Abstract: Contributors Preface 1. Introduction James P. Piscatori 2. In the Pharaoh's shadow: religion and authority in Egypt Fouad Ajami 3. Islam and politics in the Sudan Alexander S. Cudsi 4. Ideological politics in Saudi Arabia James P. Piscatori 5. The Islamic factor in Syrian and Iraqi politics Michael C. Hudson 6. Popular Puritanism versus state reformism: Islam in Algeria Jean-Claude Vatin 7. Sufi politics in Senegal Donal B. Cruise O'Brien 8. Religion and politics in modern Turkey Serif Mardin 9. Iran: Khumayni's concept of the 'Guardianship of the Jurisconsult' Hamid Enayat 10. The politics of Islam and Islamization in Pakistan David Taylor 11. Faith as the outsider: Islam in Indonesian politics Ruth McVey 12. Conclusion Albert Hourani Index.

Monarchies and Nations: Globalisation and Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf

Abstract: Introduction: Societies, Identities and Global Issues PART I: Culture and Connectedness Chapter 1: Channels of Interaction: The Role of Gulf-Owned Media Firms in Globalisation Chapter 2: Dialect and National Identity: The Cultural Politics of Self-Representation in Bahraini Musalat Chapter 3: Cultural Construction, the Gulf and Arab London PART II: Local Identities: The Importance of Nation-States Chapter 4: Transnational Connections and National Identity: Zanzibari Omanis in Muscat Chapter 5: Neither Autocracy nor Democracy but Ethnocracy: Citizens, Expatriates and the Socio-Political System in Kuwait Chapter 6: Debates on Marriage and Nationality in the United Arab Emirates PART III: Practical and Moral Order Chapter 7: Public Order and Authority: Policing Kuwait Chapter 8: Gender, Religious Knowledge and Education in Oman Chapter 9: Political Actors Without the Franchise: Women and Politics in Kuwait Chapter 10: Managing God's Guests: The Pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Legitimacy

Transnational Migration Studies: Past Developments and Future Trends

Abstract: The past two decades have witnessed a sea change in migration scholarship. Most scholars now recognize that many contemporary migrants and their predecessors maintain various kinds of ties to their homelands at the same time that they are incorporated into the countries that receive them. Increasingly, social life takes place across borders, even as the political and cultural salience of nation-state boundaries remains strong. Transnational migration studies has emerged as an inherently interdisciplinary field, made up of scholars around the world, seeking to describe and analyze these dynamics and invent new methodological tools with which to do so. In this review, we offer a short history of theoretical developments, outlining the different ways in which scholars have defined and approached transnational migration. We then summarize what is known about migrant transnationalism in different arenas—economics, politics, the social, the cultural, and the religious. Finally, we discuss methodological...

Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic

Abstract: Part 1 Muslim nationalism in China - a fourth tide: Qing Zhen - expressions of Hui identity state power and the evolution of an ethnonym the problem - who are the Hui? sociocultural diversity among the Hui three tides of Islam in China the fourth tide - ethnic nationalism in an age of nation-states. Part 2 Ethnographic research and the Chinese state: theoretical perspectives on Hui identity the rise of the nation-state and the invention of ethnicity Han nationalism and the creation of nationalities in China derivative discourses and Chinese traditional nationalism the ethnogenesis of the Hui - from Muslim to minority nationality the research - in search of the Hui the unity and diversity of Hui identity - four communities in flux. Part 3 Ethnoreligious resurgence in a northwestern Sufi community: a fundamentalist revivial in Na homestead? the rerooting of identity in Na homestead ethnoreligious roots the socioeconomic context local government policies and Na national identity truth within purity - expressions of Na identity. Part 4 Ethnic identity in Oxen Street - the urban experience: making Hui in the city - the urban problem Oxen street, an urban Hui enclave recurring texts in Oxen Street the socioeconomic context of Oxen Street Hui identity government policy and urban strategies the culture of purity - Hui identity in the city. Part 5 The other great wall - ethnic endogamy and exclusivity in a Hui autonomous village: ethnohistorical origins of a Hui autonomous village ethnic coherence and Changying identity Changying traditions of rural entrepreneurship ethnoreligious marriage traditions in Changying preserving purity through ethnic endogamy - ethnoreligious strategies and government policy in Changying. Part 6 Ethnic invention and state intervention in a southeastern lineage: no pigs for these ancestors - the memory of Muslim ancestry in Chendai the cultural basis for Chendai Hui identity socioeconomic factors in Chendai Hui identity ethnic identity and national policy - the \"Taiwanese Muslims\" public policy and ethnic revitalization in Chendai becoming ethnic in China purity within truth - Hui identity among southeastern lineages. Part 7 Conclusion - national identity in the Chinese nation-state: the people of the People's Republic - finally in the vanguard? the social life of labels objectified ethnonyms in the northwest the hardening of ethnonyms in the southwest \"sub-ethnic\" identities and the question of Han ethnicity the rise of \"united nationalities\" ethnic pluralism in Chinese society the dialectics of nationality policy and Hui identity ethnicity and nationalism in the People's Republic. Appendices: Hui Islamic orders in China a select glossary of Hui Islamic terms.

TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS: Contention and Institutions in International Politics

Abstract: ▪ Abstract Recent scholars have broadened the study of transnational relations, once limited to political economy, to include contentious international politics. This is a refreshing trend, but most of them leap directly from globalization or some other such process to transnational social movements and thence to a global civil society. In addition, they have so far failed to distinguish among movements, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and transnational networks and do not adequately specify their relations with states and international institutions. In particular, few mechanisms are proposed to link domestic actors to transnational ones and to states and international institutions. This paper argues that mass-based transnational social movements are hard to construct, are difficult to maintain, and have very different relations to states and international institutions than more routinized international NGOs or activist networks. These latter forms may be encouraged both by states and international ...

A Cultural Theory of International Relations

Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. Fear, interest and honor 3. The spirit and its expression 4. The ancient world 5. Medieval Europe 6. From Sun King to Revolution 7. Imperialism and World War I 8. World War II 9. Hitler to Bush and beyond 10. General findings and conclusions.