Islam in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives - Islamic Books ...

ContributorsDavid Buchman is a cultural anthropologist who has traveled throughoutthe Middle East pursuing the study of Arabic, Persian, Islam, and the statusof contemporary Sufism. He is an assistant professor of anthropology andMiddle East studies at Hanover College in Indiana, and his publicationsinclude a translation of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s (d. 1111) work Mishkat al-Anwar (Niche of the Lights, 1999).Tim Carm i c h a e l teaches African History at the College of Charleston(South Carolina). He is online editor of H-Africa, associate editor of NortheastAfrican Studies, and coeditor of Personality and Political Culture in ModernA f r i c a (1998). His publications focus on Islam, politics, and culture inEthiopia, Kenya, and Yemen.Edward E. Curtis IV is assistant professor of religious studies at the Universityof North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and author of Islam in Black America(2002). He offers courses in both Islamic studies and African American religionsand is currently at work on a history of religious life in ElijahM u h a m m a d ’s Nation of Islam. He holds a doctorate in religious studiesfrom the University of South Africa.R. Michael Feener teaches religious studies and Southeast Asian studies atthe University of California, Riverside. His research covers aspects of Islamin Southeast Asia and the Middle East from the early modern to the conte m p o r a ry periods. He has published articles on topics ranging fromQur’anic exegesis to Sufi hagiography, and he is currently completing workon a monograph tracing the development of Muslim legal thought in twentieth-centuryIndonesia.Anna M. Gade is assistant professor of religion at Oberlin College. She specializesin Islamic traditions and religious systems of Southeast Asia and isthe author of P e rfection Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and the RecitedQur’an in Indonesia (2004).Dru C. Gladney is professor of Asian studies and anthropology at the Universityof Hawai‘i at Manoa. His books include Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalismin the People’s Republic (1991); Making Majorities: Composing the Nationin Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the U.S. (1998); Ethnici x