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The Muslim difference : defining the line between believers and unbelievers from early Islam to the present / Youshaa Patel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patel, Youshaa, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Yale scholarship online.
- Yale scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam--Relations.
- Islam.
- Identification (Religion).
- Muslims--Religious life.
- Muslims.
- Islam--Doctrines.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.) : 20 b-w illus.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 'The Muslim Difference' presents a sweeping history of Muslim identity from its origins in late antiquity to the present.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Style
- Introduction: “Whoever imitates a people becomes one of them,”
- 1 Turning Away from Christians and Jews?
- 2 From Narrative to Normative
- 3 Empire of Small Differences
- 4 The Symbolic Power of Muslim Difference
- 5 Ibn Taymiyya and the Innovation of Imitation
- 6 “A person belongs with the one he loves,”
- 7 Escaping the Devil’s Lair: Ghazzī between Spirit and Law
- 8 Can Muslims Wear European Hats?
- Epilogue: Seeing the Other in the Light of God
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 26, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 0-300-26893-9
- OCLC:
- 1344161050
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