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Arabische Golf-Staaten. --- Arbeitsmigranten. --- Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Foreign workers, Asian --- Foreign workers, Asian. --- Migrant labor --- Migrant labor. --- Arab countries --- Arab countries. --- Golfstaaten. --- Middle East --- Persian Gulf Region

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As a world religion Islam is based on a highly abstract and absolute notion of the transcendent, which its followers establish and celebrate - in a seemingly contradictory fashion - at very specific sites: Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and the vast and complex landscapes of mosques and Muslim saints' shrines around the world. Sacred locality has thus become a paradigm for the relationship between the human and the transcendent, a model for urban planning, regional networks, imaginary spaces, and spiritual hierarchies alike. This importance of saintly places has, however, become increasingly complicated and troubled by reformist currents within Islam, on the one hand, and the emergence of modern archeology and anthropology, on the other. While they have often tended to posit ›the local‹ in opposition to ›the universal‹, in this volume islamologists, anthropologists, and sociologists offer new ways of thinking about the local, the place, and the conceptual landscapes and spaces of saints. In this, its eighth volume, the Yearbook for the Sociology of Islam looks at different sites and regions around the Muslim world (notably Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Southeast Asia) not as ›localized‹ versions of a universal Islam, but as constitutive of one particular outlook of the universalizing order of a world religion.

Islam --- Burkina Faso. --- Egypt. --- Ethiopia. --- Islam. --- Islamic Shrines. --- Islamic Studies. --- Religious Studies. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Sociology. --- South-East Asia. --- Space. --- Modern Islam; Islamic Shrines; Egypt; Ethiopia; South-East Asia; Burkina Faso; Islam; Space; Islamic Studies; Sociology of Religion; Religious Studies; Sociology --- Muslim saints. --- Islamic saints --- Saints, Muslim --- Sufi saints --- Saints --- Modern Islam --- Islamic Shrines --- Egypt --- Ethiopia --- South-East Asia --- Burkina Faso --- Space --- Islamic Studies --- Sociology of Religion --- Religious Studies --- Sociology

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Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This volume argues that one of the main reasons for this is the fact that local worlds are increasingly measured against a set of possibilities whose referents are global, not local. Due to this globalization of the personal and societal horizons of possibilities in Africa and elsewhere, in many contexts migration gains an almost inevitable attraction while, at the same time, act

Migration, Internal --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- Middle East --- Africa --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Emigration and immigration --- Emigration and immigration. --- migration; imaginations; expectations; motivations

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Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.

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Shared Margins tells of writers, writing, and literary milieus in Alexandria, Egypt's second city. It de-centres cosmopolitan avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been intensively documented and studied since 2011. Instead, it offers a fieldwork-based account of various milieus and styles, and their common grounds and lines of division. Structured in two parts, Shared Margins gives an account of literature as a social practice embedded in milieus that at once enable and limit literary imagination, and of a life-worldly experience of plurality in absence of pluralism that marks literary engagements with the intimate and social realities of Alexandria after 2011. Literary writing, this book argues, has marginality as an at once enabling and limiting condition. It provides shared spaces of imaginary excess that may go beyond the taken-for-granted of a societal milieu, and yet are never unlimited. Literary imagination is part and parcel of such social conflicts and transformations, its role being neither one of resistance against power nor of guidance towards norms, but rather one of open-ended complicity.

Authors, English. --- Egyptian literature --- History and criticism.