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Autore |
El-Aswad el-Sayed <1949-> |
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Titolo |
Muslim worldviews and everyday lives / / el-Sayed el-Aswad |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lanham, Md., : AltaMira Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-13404-3 |
9786613806628 |
0-7591-2121-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (419 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Muslims - Attitudes |
Islam - 21st century |
Islamic sociology |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Worldview, geography, and ideology -- Muslim worldviews: unity and diversity -- The worldview of the Sunni -- The esoteric worldview of the Shiʻa -- The mystic worldview of Sufism -- Muslim worldviews, imagination, and the dream world -- Multiple worldviews and multiple identities of the Muslim diaspora. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The book is critical to understanding Muslim worldviews today, providing an analysis of ethno-cosmology, emic interpretation of sacred tradition, and crucial insight into modernity, folklore, geography, dreams, imagination, hybridity, and identity transformation. |
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