Important Links on Popular Islam

Important Links and Resources

Images And Representations In Muslim Popular Culture, A Conference at the Centre for

Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, 1-4 March 2007

Transglobal Media Flows and African Popular Culture: Revolution and Reaction In Muslim Hausa Popular Culture

Devotion in pictures: Muslim popular iconography

South Asian ways of seeing, Muslim ways of knowing, The Indian Muslim niche market in posters: Sandria B. Freitag

This is What They Look Like, Stereotypes of Muslim Piety in Calendar Art and Hindi Cinema

An Image Bazaar for the Devotee (by Yousuf Saeed)

The Friends of God-Sufi Saints in Islam, Popular Poster Art from Pakistan:

Jurgen Wasim Frembgen

Journey to God, Sufis and Dervishes in Islam: Jurgen Wasim Frembgen

The Scorpion in Muslim Folklore

http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/afs/pdf/a1487.pdf

Conversion on screen: a glimpse at popular Islamic imaginations in Northern Nigeria

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-34738334_ITM

Islamic poster art in India - and South Asia

http://www.razarumi.com/2008/04/19/islamic-poster-art-in-india-and-south-asia/

The Hamsa Hand (An popular Islamic icon/amulet)

http://www.luckymojo.com/hamsahand.html

The Sufis of Delhi streets

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/07/29/stories/2002072900590200.htm

UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies :: Giorgio Levi Della Vida Series in Islamic Studies: http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/

Islam Research Directory (Germany)

http://www.islamresearchdirectory.org/en/ds/

Popular Devotional Art of the Indian Muslims: Looking for Syncretic Symbols

http://www.alif-india.com/popart/

Euro-Islam: News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and the United States

http://www.euro-islam.info/

Living Islam in Europe: Muslim Traditions in European Contexts

Window on Eurasia: Non-Mosque Trend in Islam Remains Strong in Many Parts of Russia

http://windowoneurasia.blogspot.com/2009/01/window-on-eurasia-non-mosque-trend-in.html

Project on Islam in Eurasia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

http://islam-eurasia.fas.harvard.edu/

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/

Lived Islam in South Asia: Adaptation, Accommodation and Conflict

Edited by Imtiaz Ahmad and Helmut Reifeld

https://www.vedamsbooks.com/no50057.htm

Figurative art and Islam: by Intizar Hussain

http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/040718/dmag13.htm

Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shiism

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~shmatcul/participants.html

Islamic bazaar Art (F.Pritchett)

Journal of Religion and Popular Culture

http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/index.html

Fortune-tellers popular in Islamic Iran

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/071126/3/3bhj3.html

Islamic Pluralism

http://www.islamicpluralism.eu/

Pop Culture in the Name of Islam

http://siraaj.wordpress.com/pop-culture-in-the-name-of-islam/

Satellite TV and Islamic Pop Culture in Egypt

Intriguing Islamic art, popular cultures and the contemporary South Asian diaspora British films

www.edgehill.ac.uk/sacs/vol2/issue1/SACSEditorial.pdf

Muslim pop culture (Rolled-up trousers)

http://www.osamasaeed.org/osama/2006/05/muslim_pop_cult.html

Visual Culture of the Islamic World, A course at the University of Pennsylvania

http://mec.sas.upenn.edu/MMES/217f06.pdf

Islam and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia

http://fellowship.arf-asia.org/

Between cult and culture: Bamiyan, Islamic iconoclasm, and the museum – Afghanistan

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0422/is_4_84/ai_95679863

Imagining Paradise in Islamic Art

http://www.sonic.net/~tallen/palmtree/ip.html

Interdisciplinary Conference: Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia

http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc/conference/abstracts.html

The Cult of Saints in Northwestern Tunisia, An analysis of contemporary pilgrimage structures,

Wim van Binsbergen

http://www.shikanda.net/african_religion/cultof.htm

Cultic Trends in Popular Islam

http://answering-islam.org/Gilchrist/Vol1/8c.html

The Interpretation of Myth in the Context of Popular Islam, Wim Van Binsbergen

http://www.shikanda.net/african_religion/myth0.htm

Islam and Hinduism: Symbiotic Mysticism In Devotional Poems (By A.N.D.Haksar)

http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Islamand_Hinduism/id/50381

Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in American Popular Culture

Pop culture, Islam, and Gender in Indonesia: a Tension of Interpretation

In Praise of Vulgarity, How commercial culture liberates Islam -- and the West: Charles Paul Freund

Anthropology and Islam in Indonesia: Islamic Iconography among Indonesian Muslims (Dadi Darmadi)

Islam, iconography and the Taliban

Hybrid Islamic identities in plural worlds of Indonesian Youth

Notes on Islamic Popular Culture

Masterpieces to Go: The Trucks of Pakistan

Arts of the Islamic World: Battle of Karbala (Brooklyn Museum)

Karbala and The Revival of Islamic Art

Haji Bektash, Sultan Sahak, Shah Mina Sahib and Various Avatars of a Running Wall: Martin van Bruinessen

Harjot Singh Oberoi: The Worship of Pir Sakhi Sarvar: Illness, Healing and Popular Culture in the Punjab