populist preacher) and between Muslims and non-Muslim monotheists, Jews and Christians, principally. In conversation with Katherine Verdery (The Political Lives of Dead Bodies), who examines reburials of political figures in Eastern Europe following the 1989 collapse of the Soviet Union, this paper argues that Islamic narratives regarding the death and burial of biblical figures like Adam serve to re-appropriate, re-situate, and re-define boundaries of identity and difference both among Muslims (e.g. This paper explores how death and burial narratives - particularly those associated with Adam, the paradigmatic first human being, in the Islamic religious literature known as qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā' ("stories of the prophets") - relate to the discursive processes through which religious communities articulate lines of inclusion and exclusion in the formation of their collective identities.
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