LEADER 04206nam 22009135 450 001 9910960822603321 005 20250411160012.0 010 $a9786611367183 010 $a9781281367181 010 $a1281367184 010 $a9781403973429 010 $a1403973423 024 7 $a10.1057/9781403973429 035 $a(CKB)1000000000342789 035 $a(EBL)307902 035 $a(OCoLC)173176295 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000518639 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12179560 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000518639 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10493902 035 $a(PQKB)10777283 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC307902 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7342-9 035 $a(Perlego)3496424 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000342789 100 $a20151231d2005 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIslam Obscured $eThe Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation /$fby D. Varisco 205 $a1st ed. 2005. 210 $cPalgrave Macmillan 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (237 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary Anthropology of Religion,$x2946-3483 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781403967732 311 08$a1403967733 311 08$a9781403967725 311 08$a1403967725 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-220) and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Anthropology and Islam; Chapter 1 Clifford Geertz: Islam Observed Again; Chapter 2 Ernest Gellner: Idealized to a Fault; Chapter 3 Beyond the Veil: At Play in the Bed of the Prophet; Chapter 4 Akbar Ahmed: Discovering Islam Inside Out; Epilogue: Muslims Observed: The Lessons From Anthropology; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aEthnographers have observed Muslims nearly everywhere Islam is practiced. This study analyzes four seminal texts that have been read widely outside anthropology. Two are by distinguished anthropologists on either side of the Atlantic, Islam Observed (by Clifford Geertz in 1968) and Muslim Society (by Ernest Gellner in 1981). Two other texts are by Muslim scholars, Beyond the Veil (Fatima Mernissi in 1975) and Discovering Islam (by Akbar Ahmed in 1988). Varisco argues that each of these four authors approaches Islam as an essentialized organic unity rather than letting 'Islams' found in the field speak to the diversity of practice. The textual truths engendered, and far too often engineered, in these idealized representations of Islam have found their way unscrutinized into an endless stream of scholarly works and textbooks. Varisco's analysis goes beyond the rhetoric over what Islam is to the information from ethnographic research about what Muslims say they do and actually are observed to do. The issues covered include Islam as a cultural phenomenon, representation of 'the other', Muslim gender roles, politics of ethnographic authority, and Orientalist discourse. 410 0$aContemporary Anthropology of Religion,$x2946-3483 606 $aReligion and sociology 606 $aSociology 606 $aReligion$xPhilosophy 606 $aAstronomy 606 $aIslam 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aSociology of Religion 606 $aSociological Theory 606 $aPhilosophy of Religion 606 $aAstronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences 606 $aIslam 606 $aAnthropology 615 0$aReligion and sociology. 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aReligion$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aAstronomy. 615 0$aIslam. 615 0$aAnthropology. 615 14$aSociology of Religion. 615 24$aSociological Theory. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Religion. 615 24$aAstronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences. 615 24$aIslam. 615 24$aAnthropology. 676 $a306.697 700 $aVarisco$b Daniel Martin$01086915 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910960822603321 996 $aIslam Obscured$94331255 997 $aUNINA