This article explores the ethics of the current “War on Terrorism, asking whether anthropology, the discipline devoted to understanding and dealing with cultural difference, can provide us with critical purchase on the justifications made for American intervention in Afghanistan in terms of liberating, or saving, Afghan women. I look first at the dangers of reifying...Read More

The aim of this article is to propose an alternative methodological approach that would serve well the constructivists purpose. By embracing interdisciplinary views of Islam, accounting, and anthropology, and by presenting the dialectics of Western anthropology vis a vis Islamic anthropology, we introduce Islamic accounting anthropology. As a religious-constructivist or religious-critical approach, this methodology would...Read More

A growing body of anthropological research has turned to study Islam as a discursive tradition that informs the attempts of Muslims to live pious and moral lives, the aff ects and emotions they cultivate and the challenges they pose to a liberal secular ideology. While this turn has provided direction for a number of innovative...Read More

In this peeper we would argue that it is important for Islamic and western anthropology to be seriously discussed by anthropologists and that something can be learned from such discussion whether or not it is found to be of positive value to the development of anthropological ideas generally. Anthropology is a child of Western imperialism....Read More