Recognizing Islam: an anthropologist's introduction

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Drawing exclusively on his own fieldwork in Egypt, South Arabia and the Lebanon, the author explores the nature of Islam and its impact on the daily lives of its followers; he shows that all the Western stereotypes of Islam and its practitioners need to be treated with considerable scepticism.

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Full title :Recognizing Islam : an anthropologist's introduction / Michael Gilsenan.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013, ©1982.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013, ©1982.

Notes

Originally published in 1982.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 287 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780203381304, 0203381300, 1134610548, 9781134610549
DOI:10.4324/9780203381304
oclc:ocn849942387
LC Classification:BP63.A4
Dewey Decimal:306.697

1. An anthropologist's introduction -- 2. The men of learning and authority -- 3. The community of suffering and the world reversed -- 4. The operations of grace -- 5. Miracles and worldy power : lords and sheikhs in north Lebanon -- 6. Sheikhs and the inner secrets -- 7. Everywhere and nowhere : forms of Islam in North Africa -- 8. Forming and transforming space -- 9. The sacred in the city -- 10. The world turned inside out : forms of Islam in Egypt -- 11. Islamic signs and interrogations.