1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003617660403321

Autore

Keller, Emile

Titolo

L'ouvrier libre / Emile Keller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : s.e., 1898

Locazione

DECSE

Collocazione

SE 041.03.09-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970785703321

Autore

Gilsenan Michael

Titolo

Recognizing Islam : an anthropologist's introduction / / Michael Gilsenan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-134-61061-0

0-203-38130-0

1-134-61054-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Politics of Islam ; ; v. 11

Disciplina

306.697

Soggetti

Islam - Arab countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1982 by Croom Helm.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Recognizing Islam; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. An Anthropologist's Introduction; 2. The Men of Learning and Authority; 3. The Community of Suffering and the World Reversed; 4. The Operations of Grace; 5. Miracles and Worldly Power: Lords and Sheikhs in North Lebanon; 6. Sheikhs and the Inner Secrets; 7. Everywhere and Nowhere: Forms of Islam in North Africa; 8. Forming and Transforming Space; 9. The



Sacred in the City; 10. The World Turned Inside Out: Forms of Islam in Egypt; 11. Islamic Signs and Interrogations

Afterword: A Way of WalkingNote on Transliteration; References; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Islam is more than a set of laws, rites and beliefs presented as a religious and social totality. As a word it covers a multitude of everyday forms and practices that are interwoven in complex, sometimes almost invisible ways in daily existence. Drawing exclusively on his own fieldwork in Egypt, South Arabia and the Lebanon, the author explores the nature of Islam and its impact on the daily lives of its followers; he shows that all the Western stereotypes of Islam and its practitioners need to be treated with considerable scepticism.He demonstrates also that the understanding of Isl