Varieties of Muslim experience encounters with Arab political and cultural life /
| Основен автор: | Rosen, Lawrence, 1941- |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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.