Islam Standards and Technoscience

<p>Halal (literally permissible or lawful) production trade and standards have become essential to state-regulated Islam and to companies in contemporary Malaysia and Singapore giving these two countries a special position in the rapidly expanding global market for halal products: in these nations state bodies certify halal products as well as spaces (shops factories and restaurants) and work processes and so consumers can find state halal-certified products from Malaysia and Singapore in shops around the world. Building on ethnographic material from Malaysia Singapore and Europe this book provides an exploration of the role of halal production trade and standards. Fischer explains how the global markets for halal comprise divergent zones in which Islam markets regulatory institutions and technoscience interact and diverge. Focusing on the bigger institutional picture that frames everyday halal consumption Fischer provides a multisited ethnography of the overlapping technologies and techniques of production trade and standards that together warrant a product as halal and thereby help to format the market. Exploring global halal in networks training laboratories activism companies shops and restaurants this book will be an essential resource to scholars and students of social science interested in the global interface zones between religion standards and technoscience.</p>