Contents Acknowledgements List of Tables Notes on Contributors Note on Transliteration 1 Introduction: Moving Beyond Aaron W. Hughes and Abbas Aghdassi 2 "Islam and." Thinking about Islam through the Act of Comparison Aaron W. Hughes Part 1: Gender 3 Toward a "Hermeneutics of Trust" in the Current Discussion on a Gender-Just Interpretation of Islamic Primary Texts Eva Kepplinger 4 The Discursive Construction of Women's Guile in the Muslim Exegetical Tradition Taira Amin Part 2: The Political 5 Contemporary Turkish Academic Approach to Christianity The Case of the New Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam(DIA) Betül Avci 6 New Methods for Understanding Political Islam Tradition-Constituted Rationality and the Theory of the Spirit of Meaning in the Work of Naini Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat 7 Recontextualizing Islam in the Social and Collective Memory Tracing the Sociogenesis of Martyrdom in Türkiye Meral Durmus and Bahattin Aksit Part 3: Lived Islams 8 Old, New or Digital Philology Working towards an Amalgamated Work Frame Walid Ghali 9 New Lenses for an Ethnography of Islam The Case of Mevlid Ceremonies Isabella Crespi and Martina Crescenti 10 Lived Institutions in the Study of Islam Brian Arly Jacobsen, Pernille Friis Jensen, Kirstine Sinclair and Niels Valdemar Vinding 11 Everyday Islam Moving beyond the Piety and Orthodoxy Divide Magdalena Pycinska 12 Moving from a Madrasa Situation to the Process of Doctrinal Development An Explication of the Extended Case Method in the Study of Islam Zahraa McDonald 13 A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Lived Islam and Muslimness Emin Poljarevic 14 Back to Critique Islamic Studies and the Vicious Hermeneutic Circle Abdessamad Belhaj Index.