Introduction
Part1: Studying Islam and the 'Western' Order of Things
1. Historicising Colonial Islam: Religion and Law in German East Africa
2. A Dynamic Triangle: Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Marshall G.S. Hodgson, and Toshihiko Izutsu’s Conceptualization of Islam
3. Who invented Buddhism? Or: what was Buddhism before it was called Buddhism?
4. Hinduism, Sanātana Dharma, and the Global Struggle about “True Religion”
5. Framing Islam as Conceptual History
6. Decolonising ‘Islam’
7. Muslim Publics between Discourses of Religion and Islam
Part2: Entangels Sites of Negotiation
8. Conceptualising “Islam in Europe”: A Postcolonial Approach
9. Beyond the Emic-Etic Distinction: Conceptualizing Islam in Our Inter-Connected World
10. Is “progressive Islam” still “Islamic”? Examining the question through the lens of Shahab Ahmed’s approach to conceptualising Islam
11. Religion and/or Culture? The Trouble with Conceptualizing Islam in Europe
Part3: Hegemonies and Peripheries
12. Conceptualizing Muslim “Sectarianism"
13. Genealogies of Islam Noir: Racializing Islam
14. Conceptualizing in the Medieval Indian Ocean World
Part4: Conceptual Approaches in Research Practice
15. God, Islam, and Anthropology
16. What Does Discourse Theory Contribute? Capturing Muslim Perspectives on Inheritance Law in Switzerland
17. Global and Vernacular Patterns of Islamic Orthodoxy: A Discursive Perspective
18. Charisma, Embodiment and Continuous Revelation: Broadening the Concept of Islam
19. The Discursive Tradition Framework: New Directions for the Study of Islam After 'The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam' (1986)