Varieties of Muslim experience : encounters with Arab political and cultural life /
In this book, anthropologist Lawrence Rosen explores aspects of Arab Muslim life that are, at first glance, perplexing to Westerners. His book will interest not only anthropologists and Islamicists but anyone interested in better understanding the Arab world.
| Основен автор: | Rosen, Lawrence, 1941- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
℗♭2008.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=260220 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Varieties of Muslim experience. |
Съдържание:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction : presenting and re-presenting Islam
- Just and not just
- Junk democracy : Middle East meets Middle America
- What (if anything) went wrong? personalism, institutions, and the unfractionated self
- Why do Arab terrorists kill themselves?
- On the meaning of ownership : the problematic of property in Moroccan culture
- Islamic concepts of justice
- Readings and re-readings
- Reading the Quran through Western eyes
- Why portraits hold no meaning for Arabs
- Protecting the Prophet : understanding Muslim reactions to the Danish cartoon controversy
- Theorizing from within : Ibn Khaldun and the understanding of Arab political culture
- Representatives and representations
- Knowledge forms : scientists as fundamentalists
- Expecting the unexpected : cultural components of Arab governance
- Power and culture in the acceptance of "universal" human rights
- Afterword.