Encounters with Islam: studies in the anthropology of Muslim cultures
Too often, Western encounters with the Islamic world commence with stereotypes and end with a renewed distance. Drawing from decades of experience studying the Muslim world, Lawrence Rosen challenges these narrow understandings. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Rosen shows the wide-ranging si...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Further subjects: | B
Islamic sociology
B Anthropology of religion (Islamic countries) |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781009389037 |
| Summary: | Too often, Western encounters with the Islamic world commence with stereotypes and end with a renewed distance. Drawing from decades of experience studying the Muslim world, Lawrence Rosen challenges these narrow understandings. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Rosen shows the wide-ranging significance of Muslim art, culture, and law around the world. Exploring political, economic, and social encounters within and with the Muslim world across the eras, he considers a wide range of contexts - from fifteenth-century mosaics in Central Asia that reveal a complex understanding of mathematics, to the political choices available to the youth of modern-day Morocco and Cairo. With in-depth analyses of art, law, and religion, and how they informed one another, Rosen develops a vibrant, nuanced portrait of the Islamic world. Drawing linkages across time, regions, and cultures, this is a significant anthropological study of the Islamic world from a seasoned scholar. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Sep 2023) |
| ISBN: | 1009389017 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781009389013 |