ISBN:
9781009389013
,
9781009389037
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9781009388986
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 198 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
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DDC:
306.6/97
Keywords:
Islamic sociology
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Anthropology of religion
Abstract:
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.
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DOI:
10.1017/9781009389013
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009389013
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