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Date: 26 Jun 2003
From:"Joseph N. Bell" <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject:New JAIS article

Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
<http://www.uib.no/jais>
<http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais/jais.htm>

 From Joseph Bell

The prepublication version of the following new article has been posted
today:

Leif Ole Manger. "Religion, Identities, and Politics: Defining Muslim
Discourses in the Nuba Mountains of the Sudan" (Adobe Acrobat 5.0 PDF
file, 178 kB, pp. 132-52). HTML version to be posted later.

Abstract: The author discusses the increased importance of Islam in
religious and social life in the Sudan, exemplified by a discussion of
the interplay between an indigenous, non-Arab, non-Islamized Sudanese
people, the Lafofa Nuba, and their interaction with the Arab and
Islamic traditions of Sudanese society at large. An understanding of
this interaction will require types of analysis that deal with issues
of belief as well as broader issues of identity management. People do
not take over Islam as one unified system and in one process of
conversion; rather they take up Muslim customs and practices that
become symbols of such a conversion. The process of conversion must
therefore be linked to the socio-economic and political status of the
people involved. The author points out that theoretical contributions
by Talal Asad on Islam as a "discursive tradition" and Robert Launay on
Muslim communities as "moral communities" provide interesting avenues
for exploring this complexity.

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