Papers by Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf
Archiv Orientalni, 2015
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Das Themenheft „Flucht – Familie – soziale Netzwerke“ ist aus dem Lehrforschungsprogramm „Ethnogr... more Das Themenheft „Flucht – Familie – soziale Netzwerke“ ist aus dem Lehrforschungsprogramm „Ethnographie vor der Haustur“ des Instituts fur Ethnologie und des Orientalischen Seminars der Universitat zu Koln erwachsen. Im Jahrgang 2017/18 fokussierte das Programm auf das Thema „Flucht und Familie“. Die Teilnehmer*innen untersuchten u.a. wie sich familiare Konstellationen und Rollen nach der Ankunft in Deutschland veranderten, mit welchen Kommunikationsmitteln Gefluchtete transnationale Kontakte zu Familienmitgliedern halten, wie neue Freundschaften und soziale Netzwerke geknupft werden und welche Perspektiven gefluchtete Eltern und Jugendliche in Bezug auf Schule und Zukunft haben. In diesem Themenheft werden die Ergebnisse der Forschungen von Emily Davis, Nicola Deuticke, Hannah Monninger, Yannick von Lautz und Karim Zafer prasentiert. Die Beitrage sind in Deutsch oder Englisch sowie in arabischer Ubersetzung abgedruckt, um die Ergebnisse der Forschung einem akademischen Publikum sowi...
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Online-Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, 2015
The internet has become a new source for religious advice and a new channel for communication abo... more The internet has become a new source for religious advice and a new channel for communication about Shariah-based normative guidelines. Opinions and judgments concerning a variety of religious topics are stored in this medium, provided by both religious scholars and laymen. This creates new spaces of religious contestation offering a wide public the possibility to challenge traditional religious authorities. The aim of this paper is to examine the processes of renegotiating Shariah-based normative guidelines in cyberspace by using a case study approach. Via search engines a random sample of websites were drawn where women’s ʿawra (parts that are not to be exposed) are (re)defined and discussed. The paper is divided into four parts: After an introduction about various forms of religious normative guidelines in cyberspace and a discussion of the medium’s impact on authorities, we show in part two that the term ʿawra and its impact on female behavior is disputed since early Islam. Sinc...
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Damir-Geilsdorf and Hedider explore the way veiled women living in Germany (re)claim agency over ... more Damir-Geilsdorf and Hedider explore the way veiled women living in Germany (re)claim agency over their bodies through different forms of clothing practices. Using ethnographic data, the authors show that it is not only religious guidelines that play a role for clothing practices, but also (changing) social contexts, individual tastes, and preferences as well as global fashion trends. Their interaction and pragmatic considerations can shape experiences of religious commitment and dedication by ambivalences, dynamics, and transformations. veiled women are thus not a homo islamicus whose lives are only determined by Islamic jurisprudential norms and values. Furthermore, the authors explore how social media platforms such as Instagram are used as a tool of empowerment to (re)claim agency by telling one’s own story
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Creative Resistance, 2020
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Journal of Muslims in Europe, 2020
The special issue “Empirical Approaches to Salafism: Methodological and Ethical Challenges” addre... more The special issue “Empirical Approaches to Salafism: Methodological and Ethical Challenges” addresses urgent methodological and ethical issues in qualitative research on Salafism. The contributing authors discuss these in relation to their fieldwork on Salafi beliefs, practices, life courses and world views. The contributions problematize the limits of the usual academic definitions of Salafism by confronting the conventional categories of quietist, political and jihadist Salafism with first-hand field data. Thereby, the authors show how categorial lines begin to blur and to shift when exposed to the ambiguous and dynamic characteristics that are inherent to virtual and real-life fieldwork with Salafis.
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UN Women Discussion Papers, 2018
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Verschleierter Orient - Entschleierter Okzident?, 2012
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Migration and Development, 2018
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Religions, 2019
Salafis’ everyday lives, social relations, and attitudes towards both Muslims and non-Muslims are... more Salafis’ everyday lives, social relations, and attitudes towards both Muslims and non-Muslims are often shaped implicitly or explicitly by the theological concept of al-wala’ wa-l-bara’ (“loyalty and disavowal”). It indicates whom to be loyal to on the one hand, and whom to disavow on the other hand—or from which persons, deeds, and practices one should distance oneself. However, within the highly heterogeneous spectrum of Salafi orientations, beliefs, and religious practices, interpretations of al-wala’ and al-bara’ differ as well as its actual relevance and its implications for concrete life situations. This article explores how Muslims in Germany who identify themselves with non-violent, so-called ‘purist Salafism’ perceive and practice social relations, social closeness, or separation in their everyday lives by drawing implicitly or explicitly on principles of loyalty and disavowal. Based on qualitative interviews and participant observations (data gathered between 2014 and 2018...
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Journal of Muslims in Europe, 2017
This article explores the lifeworlds of so-called Salafi(st)s in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany,... more This article explores the lifeworlds of so-called Salafi(st)s in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, by examining the ways their beliefs impact upon their everyday lives, identities, and religious practices. Based on participant observation, informal talks, and in-depth interviews conducted with persons visiting mosques ascribed to apolitical “puristic Salafism” (salafiyya ʿilmiyya), the article is intended to shed light on their ways of life, convictions, and everyday practices by presenting four case studies. The subjects of our case studies show a highly heterogeneous and individual synthesis of personal guidelines for conducting what they call a “good Muslim life”, according to their translation of the role model of thesalaf ṣāliḥ(“the pious ancestors”, i.e. the first three generations of Muslims) as well as a heterogeneity in their emic identity ascription and definition of what Salafism means to them.
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Global Studies, 2016
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Salafismus in Deutschland
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Contemporary Islam, 2016
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Studien zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Gedächtnisforschung, 2005
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Global Studies, 2016
Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capi... more Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous 'coolie trade' - mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa - was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and 'free' wage labour. This interdisciplinary volume addresses historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab Gulf States today.
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Papers by Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf
The articles of this volume offer intriguing and origi-nal thoughts about the appropriate economic system for a Muslim society. Some of the concepts are based right away on socialism, while others call for a genu-ine, non-Western Islamic ‘third way’ between com-munism and capitalism. In fact, political reality has forced the secular Left to grapple with the response of Islamic movements to poverty and injustice. The vol-ume therefore also includes useful insights into the Left’s reaction to this political challenge.
The articles cover a wide range of world regions, not only the Middle East and Turkey, but also the Far East and North Africa, with a time span ranging from the late 19th century to the present. In addition, the reader is also introduced to economic concepts of early Islam and their textual sources.