TY - BOOK ID - 71980689 TI - Islamic studies in the twenty-first century : transformations and continuities AU - Buskens, Léon AU - Sandwijk, Annemarie van PY - 2016 SN - 9789048528189 9048528186 9789089649263 9089649263 PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Islamic sociology. KW - Islam KW - Islamic studies KW - Muslim sociology KW - Sociology, Islamic KW - Sociology KW - Study and teaching. KW - Theology & Religion KW - Middle East KW - Muslim world KW - Muslims KW - Sharia UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:71980689 AB - In recent decades, traditional methods of philology and intellectual history, applied to the study of Islam and Muslim societies, have met with considerable criticism from rising generations of scholars who have turned to the social sciences, most notably anthropology and social history, for guidance. This change has been accompanied by the rise of new fields, studying, for example, Islam in Europe and Africa, and new topics, such as the role of gender. This collection surveys these transformations and others, taking stock of the field and showing new paths forward. ER -