أنثروبولوجيا الإسلام : مدخل لتفكيك خطوط التفكير في المركزية الغربية

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During the past four decades, a new epistemological field has emerged with force and has gained a remarkable presence within anthropology.

It has been named “Islamic anthropology”, and amidst the emergence of this new field, the intellectual and epistemological presuppositions in many statements, perceptions and terminologies of numerous western anthropologists have been revised.

Additionally, remnants of cultural/ orientalist references have been discovered which have governed and organized them, and this has placed Islamic anthropology in the face of two important reviews which have not only dealt with orientalist traces but also fieldwork and its main methodology: ethnography.

The matter did not stop at a review of Talal Asad, Daniel Varisco, Edward Said and other figures, but also exceeded that to a review of local anthropologists in some Islamic countries.

In the face of all of this, the issue of western centrality has been brought to the scene once again, not only to examine its orientalist roots but also the problems of the ethnographic methodology which is dominant in anthropology as well.

In other words, questions have been raised once again regarding western social science and how it still expresses that western centrality and incorporates it within ready-made paradigms which have this time dominated the new epistemological field of Islamic anthropology.