Dale F. Eickelman, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations
Dartmouth College
Born in 1942 in Evergreen Park, Ill., USA
Studied Anthropology and Islamic Studies at Dartmouth College,
McGill University, and University of Chicago
Project
Mainstreaming Islam: Taking Charge of the Faith
I am planning to explore the influential impact that educated Muslims are having on rethinking Islamic thought and practice. My thesis is that the most profound transformations in the Muslim world today are occurring through the actions of middle-class professionals and religious intellectuals. This process of "mainstreaming" - which includes tolerance of other faiths and accommodation of alternative Muslim religious ideas and practices - presents Islam as an integral and "acceptable" part of civic life and requires a concrete set of skills and aptitudes. By building a better understanding of these skills through in-depth field work and drawing on my past research in Indonesia, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, my work will present a more complex analysis of the effects of those reformers who are rethinking religion outside of traditional boundaries, or are shaping new social movements.Recommended Reading
Eickelman, Dale F. Knowledge and Power in Morocco. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Eickelman, Dale F. and James Piscatori. Muslim Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004 (new edition).
Eickelman, Dale F. and Armando Salvatore. "Muslim Publics." In Public Islam and the Common Good, edited by Armando Salvatore and Dale F. Eickelman, 3-27. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Publications from the Fellows' Library
Eickelman, Dale F. (2004)
Eickelman, Dale F. (Leiden [u.a.], 2004)
Public Islam and the common good Social, economic and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 95
Eickelman, Dale F. (2003)
Communication and control in the Middle East: publication and its discontents
Eickelman, Dale F. (Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.], 2003)
New media in the Muslim world : the emerging public sphere Indiana series in Middle East studies
Eickelman, Dale F. (2002)
Foreword: the religious public sphere in early Muslim society
Eickelman, Dale F. (2000)
Islam and the languages of modernity
Eickelman, Dale F. (Rabat, 2000)
Al-Macrifa wa-l-sulta fi al-Maghrib Knowledge and power in Morocco
Eickelman, Dale F. (Damascus, 2000)
Proposal for an Islamic covenant Mashru' mithaq al-'amal al-Islami
Eickelman, Dale F. (1999)
Islamic religious commentary and lesson circles : is there a Copernican revolution?
Eickelman, Dale F. (Bloomington [u.a.], 1999)
New media in the Muslim world : the emerging public sphere Indiana series in Middle East studies
