Lawrence Rosen: Encounters with Islam
Encounters with Islam
Buch
- Studies in the Anthropology of Muslim Cultures
- Cambridge University Press, 11/2023
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781009389037
- Bestellnummer: 11523953
- Umfang: 256 Seiten
- Gewicht: 450 g
- Maße: 235 x 156 mm
- Stärke: 15 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.11.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
Too often, Western encounters with the Islamic world commence with stereotypes and end with a renewed distance. Drawing from decades of experience studying the Muslim world, Lawrence Rosen challenges these narrow understandings. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Rosen shows the wide-ranging significance of Muslim art, culture, and law around the world. Exploring political, economic, and social encounters within and with the Muslim world across the eras, he considers a wide range of contexts - from fifteenth-century mosaics in Central Asia that reveal a complex understanding of mathematics, to the political choices available to the youth of modern-day Morocco and Cairo. With in-depth analyses of art, law, and religion, and how they informed one another, Rosen develops a vibrant, nuanced portrait of the Islamic world. Drawing linkages across time, regions, and cultures, this is a significant anthropological study of the Islamic world from a seasoned scholar. Lawrence Rosen
Encounters with Islam
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