Islamization and Archaeology

Religion, Culture and New Materialism

Dr José C. Carvajal López (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-00666-9 (ISBN)

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This fresh approach to the study of Islamization proposes an innovative conceptual framework that treats the subject as a particular case of cultural change. The aim of the volume is to make Islamization amenable to archaeological and historical analyses of changes in material conditions of life without forsaking the specific history of Islam. Islam and Islamization must be understood in their particular social context, but also in relation to the conditions that hold them together over large geographical and chronological expanses.

Archaeologists and historians have considered Islamization from a range of different perspectives, from conversion to cultural change, though these studies have tended to be underpinned by a normativist conception of Islam. In contrast, José C. Carvajal López takes a hermeneutical stance, wherein Islam is the result of exploration, and adopts a New Materialist theoretical analysis to explore Islamization and its impact on identities, communities and their material culture. The consequences for the study of Islamization are examined through examples that include some of the author’s own experiences.

This innovative take on Islamization is not exclusively interested in the spread of the religion or of the polity, and therefore it overcomes the theoretical limits imposed by the concepts of religious conversion and ideological imposition. This book will appeal to scholars interested in associating cultural and religious change and, in particular, those working on Islam, whether within or outside the discipline of archaeology.

José C. Carvajal López is Lecturer in Historical Archaeology at the University of Leicester, UK. He has published both on Islamization and on the archaeology of al-Andalus, and has developed fieldwork projects in Qatar, Palestine and Iraqi Kurdistan. He is currently a Trustee of the International Association for the Study of Arabia and continues to conduct research on Islamic archaeology, particularly in Spain and Qatar.

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Islam and Islamization
2. Islamization: From Conversion to Cultural Change
3. Islamic Identity and Being Islamic
4. Islamic Things, Islamic Beings and Con-Text
5. Islamization of Communities: Two Case Studies in Early Islam
6. Conclusion

References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Debates in Archaeology
Zusatzinfo	6 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-350-00666-1 / 1350006661
ISBN-13	978-1-350-00666-9 / 9781350006669
Zustand	Neuware