Encounters with Islam
Studies in the Anthropology of Muslim Cultures
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- Author: Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University, New Jersey
- Date Published: November 2023
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- isbn: 9781009388986
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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.
Read more- Adopts an interdisciplinary approach to offer original insights on Islamic art, culture, and law
- Offers a range of examples to illustrate the relationship between Islam and everyday life
- Develops a nuanced portrait of the Islamic world that challenges existing stereotypes
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- Date Published: November 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009388986
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
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.
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