Encounters with Islam : studies in the anthropology of Muslim cultures / Lawrence Rosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosen, Lawrence, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic sociology.

Anthropology of religion--Islamic countries.

Anthropology of religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

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

Envoi

Bibliography.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009389013 (ebook)

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