Research in the Islamic Context: Political and Methodological Reflections from South Asia, Indian Ocean, and the Arab World

This book explores some of the political and methodological directions that collectively lead to the repositioning of Islam in social science research as both an epistemic/ontological category and as a method.

M.H. Ilias is currently Professor and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences at Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU), India. His areas of research interest include Islam movements in South Asia, religion and state in the Gulf states, Hadrami migration on the Malabar Coast, South Asian migration to the Gulf region, religion and visual culture in West Asia, sociology of conflict, Gandhian philosophy, and Muslims and new media.