Max Weber & Islam

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"Max Weber and Islam is a major effort by Islamic studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber's perspectives on Islam and its historical development. Eight specialists on Islam and two sociologists explore many dimensions of Weber's comments on Islam, along with Weber's conceptual framework. The volume's introduction links the discussions to contemporary issues and debates." "This book will appeal to a wide range of scholars and laymen interested in the Islamic world. It will be of …

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Full title :Max Weber & Islam / edited by Toby E. Huff and Wolfgang Schluchter editors.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1999.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Transaction
Place of Publication:New Brunswick, NJ
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1999.

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Description:viii, 332 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1560004002, 9781560004004
oclc:ocm40990230
LC Classification:BP173.25
Dewey Decimal:306.6/97/092

Hindrances to modernity: Max Weber on Islam / Wolfgang Schluchter -- The institutionalization of early Islamic societies / Ira M. Lapidus -- Aspects of Islamization: Weber's observations on Islam reconsidered / Nehemia Levtzion -- Islamization in late medieval Bengal: the relevance of Max Weber / Richard M. Eaton -- Max Weber and the patrimonial empire in Islam: the Mughal case / Peter Hardy -- Paradise or Hell?: the religious doctrine of election in eighteenth and nineteenth century Islamic fundamentalism and Protestant Calvinism / Rudolph Peters -- Weber and Islamic reform / Barbara D. Metcalf -- Secularization, Weber, and Islam / Francis Robinson -- Weber, Islamic law, and the rise of capitalism / Patricia Crone -- Weber and Islamic sects / Michael Cook -- Weber's analysis of Islam and the specific pattern of Islamic civilization / S.N. Eisenstadt.