03066oam 2200637I 450 991097078570332120251117100826.01-134-61061-00-203-38130-01-134-61054-810.4324/9780203381304 (CKB)2670000000369143(EBL)1209557(SSID)ssj0000972286(PQKBManifestationID)11582463(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000972286(PQKBWorkID)10946509(PQKB)10093794(MiAaPQ)EBC1209557(Au-PeEL)EBL1209557(CaPaEBR)ebr10716341(CaONFJC)MIL495379(OCoLC)847949113(OCoLC)849942387(FINmELB)ELB131763(EXLCZ)99267000000036914320180706e20131982 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRecognizing Islam an anthropologist's introduction /Michael Gilsenan1st ed.Abingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (292 p.)Routledge library editions. Politics of Islam ;v. 11First published in 1982 by Croom Helm.1-138-91271-9 0-415-83083-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 InterrogationsAfterword: A Way of WalkingNote on Transliteration; References; Select Bibliography; IndexIslam 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 IslRoutledge Library Editions: Politics of IslamIslamArab countriesIslam306.697Gilsenan Michael.496856MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970785703321Recognizing Islam960766UNINA