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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1. Verfasser: Rosen, Lawrence 1941- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
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Zusammenfassung: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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Introduction: Theme and Variation in the Encounter of Cultures -- Part I. Expressive -- 1. Choice and Chaos: The Social Meaning of an Islamic Art Form -- Part II. Legal: 2. Tribal Law as Islamic Law -- 3. The Meaning of the Gift -- 4. Islam and the Rule of Law -- Part III. Political: 5. Anthropological Assumptions and the Afghan War -- 6. Aging Out? Youth in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring -- 7. Missionaries and Muslims: Moroccan Engagement with the Western Other -- Part IV. Critical: 8. Clifford Geertz, Observing Islam -- 9. Edward Said's Unfinished Critique: Orientalism Revisited -- Envoi -- Bibliography
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 198 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009389013
DOI:10.1017/9781009389013

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