عنوان

Varieties of Muslim experience

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9780226726168 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

0226726169 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Number

90-9737

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Varieties of Muslim experience

Other Title Information

: encounters with Arab political and cultural life

First Statement of Responsibility

/ Lawrence Rosen.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

: University of Chicago Press

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

, 2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 268 p.

Dimensions

; 24 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-265) and index.

Text of Note

Acknowledgments -- Introduction : presenting and re-presenting Islam -- Just and not just -- Junk democracy : Middle East meets Middle America -- What (if anything) went wrong? personalism, institutions, and the unfractionated self -- Why do Arab terrorists kill themselves? -- On the meaning of ownership : the problematic of property in Moroccan culture -- Islamic concepts of justice -- Readings and re-readings -- Reading the Quran through Western eyes -- Why portraits hold no meaning for Arabs -- Protecting the Prophet : understanding Muslim reactions to the Danish cartoon controversy -- Theorizing from within : Ibn Khaldun and the understanding of Arab political culture -- Representatives and representations -- Knowledge forms : scientists as fundamentalists -- Expecting the unexpected : cultural components of Arab governance -- Power and culture in the acceptance of "universal" human rights -- Afterword.

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Islam-- 21st century.

Arab countries, Politics and government, 21st century.

Arab countries, Social life and customs.

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Book number

Rosen, Lawrence,1941-

Date of Transaction

20111012063415.0

Uniform Resource Identifier

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0726/2007035706.html

Uniform Resource Identifier

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0743/2007035706-d.html

Uniform Resource Identifier

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007035706-b.html

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