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The Culture of Islam: Changing Aspects of Contemporary Muslim Life
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Hardcover. In "The culture of Islam" Lawrence Rosen brings his experience of working for several decades in North Africa to illuminate key aspects of Muslim life and how central tenets of that life are being challenged and culturally refashioned. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 526.
Having worked for several decades in North Africa, anthropologist Lawrence Rosen is uniquely placed to ask what factors contribute to the continuity and changes characterizing the present-day Muslim world. In The Culture of Islam, he illuminates key aspects of Muslim life and demonstrates how central tenets of that life are being challenged and culturally refashioned. Both an antidote to simplified versions of Islam circulating today and a consistent story of the continuities that account for much of ordinary Muslim life, Rosen's work offers, in its human stories and its insights, its own contribution to the mutual understanding and forgiveness that ... Read more
Having worked for several decades in North Africa, anthropologist Lawrence Rosen is uniquely placed to ask what factors contribute to the continuity and changes characterizing the present-day Muslim world. In The Culture of Islam, he illuminates key aspects of Muslim life and demonstrates how central tenets of that life are being challenged and culturally refashioned. Both an antidote to simplified versions of Islam circulating today and a consistent story of the continuities that account for much of ordinary Muslim life, Rosen's work offers, in its human stories and its insights, its own contribution to the mutual understanding and forgiveness that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226726137
SKU
V9780226726137
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99-15
About Unknown
Lawrence Rosen is professor of anthropology at Princeton University and adjunct professor of law at Columbia University, Named to the first group of MacArthur Award winners, he is the author of six books, including. Bargaining for Reality: The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Community, published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for The Culture of Islam: Changing Aspects of Contemporary Muslim Life
"At a time when writers and commentators are discussing Islam so freely and often superficially, the need for a measured and accessible analysis of Islam is great. Lawrence Rosen's The Culture of Islam perfectly meets this need. Rosen's continuing interactions with the Muslim world, which began over three decades ago, allow us special insights into Islamic culture and have formed ... Read more