LEADER 03066oam 2200637I 450 001 9910970785703321 005 20251117100826.0 010 $a1-134-61061-0 010 $a0-203-38130-0 010 $a1-134-61054-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203381304 035 $a(CKB)2670000000369143 035 $a(EBL)1209557 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000972286 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11582463 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000972286 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10946509 035 $a(PQKB)10093794 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1209557 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1209557 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10716341 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL495379 035 $a(OCoLC)847949113 035 $a(OCoLC)849942387 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB131763 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000369143 100 $a20180706e20131982 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRecognizing Islam $ean anthropologist's introduction /$fMichael Gilsenan 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (292 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge library editions. Politics of Islam ;$vv. 11 300 $aFirst published in 1982 by Croom Helm. 311 08$a1-138-91271-9 311 08$a0-415-83083-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aAfterword: A Way of WalkingNote on Transliteration; References; Select Bibliography; Index 330 $aIslam is more than a set of laws, rites and beliefs presented as a religious and social totality. As a word it covers a multitude of everyday forms and practices that are interwoven in complex, sometimes almost invisible ways in daily existence. Drawing exclusively on his own fieldwork in Egypt, South Arabia and the Lebanon, the author explores the nature of Islam and its impact on the daily lives of its followers; he shows that all the Western stereotypes of Islam and its practitioners need to be treated with considerable scepticism.He demonstrates also that the understanding of Isl 410 0$aRoutledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam 606 $aIslam$zArab countries 615 0$aIslam 676 $a306.697 700 $aGilsenan$b Michael.$0496856 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970785703321 996 $aRecognizing Islam$9960766 997 $aUNINA