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"[This book presents] a global picture of Islamic preaching in various contexts, from early Islam to Swedish suburbs. This testifies to the lively tradition of Islamic rhetoric beyond time and space. Here, the chapters on rhetoric situated in Swedish and Egyptian contexts make the most solid contribution. As a whole, the book could be useful to scholars and students of Islamic Studies, anthropology and Arabic literature.--Abdessamad Belhaj, Research Institute of Religion and Society, National University of Public Service, Budapest ""Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol. 33, No. 2"" [...] provides unique insight into the evolving nature of preaching itself as well as more broadly the evolution of the role of religion in everyday life through the use of social media and other new technologies. As such, the book is impressively interdisciplinary, using a range of methodologies and theoretical framings from throughout the humanities and social sciences. [...] a valuable contribution to our understanding of the role of Islam both past and present.--Courtney Freer, London School of Economics and Political Science ""Middle Eastern Studies"" [This book] provides unique insight into the evolving nature of preaching itself as well as more broadly the evolution of the role of religion in everyday life through the use of social media and other new technologies. As such, the book is impressively interdisciplinary, using a range of methodologies and theoretical framings from throughout the humanities and social sciences ... A valuable contribution to our understanding of the role of Islam both past and present.--Courtney Freer, London School of Economics and Political Science ""Middle Eastern Studies"" This impressive volume puts the past and present of Islamic preaching in comparative perspective. With nuanced attention to both larger contexts and local contingencies, it masterfully explores the ethical, political, and mediated stakes of this authoritative yet continually transforming Islamic practice from 14th century Cairo to 21st century Los Angeles, from Sweden to Saudi Arabia.--Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan"

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Simon Stjernholm is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He publishes in both Swedish, Danish and English and his research has previously appeared in a number of key Anglophone journals, including the Journal of Muslims in Europe and the Journal of Contemporary Religion. He has also contributed to a number of edited volumes, including Francesco Piraino & Mark Sedgwick's Global Sufism (Hurst & Co, 2019) and Ron Geaves & Theodore Gabriel's Sufism in Britain (Bloomsbury, 2013). This is his first edited volume in English.. Elisabeth Özdalga is a retired senior researcher, and before that director, of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. She was professor of sociology at the Middle East University in Ankara 1994-2009 and visiting chair of the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Ankara 2011-13. She is the editor of several anthologies, among others Late Ottoman Society (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), Novel and Nation in the Muslim World (with Daniella Kuzmanovic) (Palgrave 2015), Muslim Preaching in the Middle East and Beyond (with Simon Stjernholm) (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), and author of 'Islamism and Nationalism as Sister Ideologies: Reflections on the Politicization of Islam in a Longue Durée Perspective, ' Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 407-23, May 2009.

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