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A new anthropology of islam

A new anthropology of islam

by Bowen, John R.

fromNew departures in anthropology

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In this powerful but accessible new study John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam - revelatio…

Anthropology of Islam

by Bowen, John R.

fromEncyclopaedia of Islam, THREE

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The anthropology of Islam has an early history in colonial-era compendia of practices and politics by administrators and scholars (Lane; Snouck Hurgronje), but the systematic anthropological study of Islam dates from the second half of the twentieth century. The history of that …