Notes on Contributors

Rachel Bloul received her Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales and currently teaches sociology at the Australian National University.

Robert Dannin received his Ph.D. in anthropology and ethno-linguistics from the Ecoles des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris) and currently teaches in New York University’s Metropolitan Studies Program. He is the co-author, with Jolie Stahl, of Black Pilgrimage to Islam (forthcoming).

Moustapha Diop received his Ph.D. in sociology in 1981 from the Ecoles des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). He is currently a Maître de conférences at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Paris). His publications include Le Mouvement associatif islamique en Ile-de-France, on voluntary Islamic associations in Ile-de-France (1990), and Structuration d’un tabligh, on structuring the Jama‘at Tabligh network (1994). Dr. Diop is currently doing research on Islamic brotherhoods in France and on the transmission of culture among immigrant populations in France.

John Eade is a principal lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Roehampton Institute, London, where he teaches anthropology and sociology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has undertaken research in Calcutta and the East End of London on issues of identity and political representation. His publications include The Politics of Community (1989) and, with co-editor Michael J. Sallnow, Contesting the Sacred: The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage (1991). He is currently editing a book on globalization in London and planning another edited volume on ethnic violence in Europe.

Victoria Ebin has a Ph.D. in anthropology from Cambridge University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. She is currently working as an editor at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, D.C., and is a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. She carried out research for several years at ORSTOM (Institut français de recherche et developpement en coopération) in Senegal and France.

Gulzar Haider is Professor of Architecture at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has been involved over the past three decades in the theory and practice of the design of mosques in North America. He is a member of the International Commission for the Preservation of Islamic Cultural Heritage and has written and lectured extensively on the questions of tradition and modernity in Islamic architecture.

Aminah Beverly McCloud, an assistant professor in religious studies at DePaul University, specializes in Islamic studies. She is the author of African-American Islam (1995).

Ruth Mandel received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and teaches anthropology at University College, London. She has recently undertaken research in Kazakhstan.

Barbara Daly Metcalf, a historian, is dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California at Davis. She is the author of Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860–1900 (1982), the editor of Moral Conduct and Authority: The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam (1984), and the translator of Perfecting Women: Maulana Ashraf ‘Ali Thanawi’s Bihisti Zewar (1990).

Laurence Michalak received his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology in 1983 from the University of California at Berkeley, where he is currently vice chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He is the co-editor of Social Legislation in the Contemporary Middle East (1986) and of a volume in preparation on the effects of international labor migration on North Africa.

Regula Burckhardt Qureshi was trained in anthropology and music; she is a professor of ethnomusicology as well as an adjunct professor of anthropology and religious studies at the University of Alberta. Her research centers on sonic performance traditions, with an ethnographic focus on Muslim cultures in India, Pakistan, and Canada. She is the author of Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali (1986) and co-editor of The Muslim Community in North America (1983) and Muslim Families in North America (1991).

Vernon James Schubel is chair of the Department of Religion at Kenyon College, where he teaches courses on Islam, Hinduism, and the History of Religions. He is the author of Religious Performance in Contemporary Islam: Shi‘i Devotional Rituals in Pakistan (1993). His current research focuses on Uzbekistan.

Susan Slyomovics teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. She is the author of The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance (1988) and a member of the editorial committee of MERIP/Middle East Report.

Jolie Stahl is a photographer with a fine arts background. Her pictures are part of a visual anthropology of American Muslims and were taken during field research for the ethnography entitled Black Pilgrimage to Islam.

Pnina Werbner is a senior lecturer in Social Anthropology at Keele University and research administrator of the International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, Manchester and Keele. Her publications include The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis (1990) and she has co-edited Black and Ethnic Leaderships in Britain: The Cultural Dimensions of Political Action (1991) and Economy and Culture in Pakistan: Migrants and Cities in a Muslim Society (1991). She is currently directing a major project on South Asian Popular Culture: Gender, Generation and Identity, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK).