Recognizing Islam : religion and society in the modern Middle East
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Recognizing Islam : religion and society in the modern Middle East
Tauris, 1990
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Bibliography: p. 275-281
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Drawing on his own work in cities, villages and tribal communities of the region, Gilsenan provides an analysis of the role of religion in the Middle East. He explores religious activity in various of settings, considers the effect of colonialism, and examines Islamic responses to the modern world.
Table of Contents
- An anthropologist's introduction
- the men of learning and authority
- the community of suffering and the world reversed
- the operations of grace
- miracles and worldly power - lords and sheiks in North Lebanon
- sheiks and the inner secrets
- everywhere and nowhere - forms of Islam in North Africa
- forming and transforming space
- the sacred in the city
- the world turned inside out - forms of Islam in Egypt
- Islamic signs and interrogations
- afterword - a way of walking.
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