The Routledge Handbook of Global Islam and Consumer Culture is an outstanding inter- and transdisciplinary reference source to key topics, problems, and debates in this challenging research field. The study of Islam is enriched by investigating religion and, notably, Islamic normativity (fiqh) as a resource for product design, attitudes toward commodification, and appropriated patterns of behavior. Comprising 35 chapters (including an extended Introduction) by a team of international contributors from chairholders to advanced graduate students, the handbook is divided into seven parts:
- Guiding Frameworks of Understanding
- Historical Probes
- Urbanism and Consumption
- Body Manipulation, Vestiary Regimes, and Gender
- Mediated Religion and Culture
- Consumer Culture, Lifestyle, and Senses of the Self through Consumption
- Markets
These sections examine vibrant debates around consumption, frugality, Islamic ju
