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Marion H. Katz

The Study of Islamic Ritual and the Meaning of Wu???

The academic study of Islamic ritual, interested scholars agree, has been sorely neglected. Particularly in the 1980s, a number of voices arose identifying and lamenting this lack. “Neither in terms of rich comparative study nor in terms of interpretive study of Muslim ritual on its own terms,” wrote William Graham in 1981, “do we have any really significant work to build upon”. Although “Islam itself places great emphasis on ritual activities”, wrote Frederick Denny in 1985, “the systematic study of ritual within traditional Islamic studies has been recessive”. Almost a decade after Graham’s essay, Kevin Reinhart could still speak in 1990 of “a desiccating lack of studies ? of Islamic ritual life” by either Islamicists or historians of religion.

Der Islam, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0021-1818
Volume: 82, 04/2005
Pages: 106 - 145

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