Encounters with Islam: Studies in the Anthropology of Muslim Cultures

ISBN-13: 9781009388986 / Miękka / 2023 / 256 str.

New Jersey) Rosen Lawrence (Princeton University

Opis

Offers an interdisciplinary anthropological study of the Islamic world – exploring art, law, and religion – to challenge existing stereotypes.

Spis treści

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.