New Methods in the Study of Islam

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New Methods in the Study of Islam is written by Aaron W. Hughes and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1399503529 (ISBN 10) and 9781399503525 (ISBN 13).

Methods play a key role in how we access and subsequently organise data. There is a tendency, however, for scholars to focus primarily on their data at the expense of the methodological acts that bring such data into existence in the first place. The academic study of Islam is certainly no different in this regard. Indeed, many continue to employ established or classic methods that often echo (neo-)orientalist and other political inclinations. This collection, in contrast, offers an alternative, providing a set of multi-disciplinary approaches that focus on how we create, study and disseminate "e;Islamic data."e;