Recognizing Islam: An Anthropologist’s Introduction

292 Pages·2013·11.535 MB·English

by  Michael Gilsenan

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RECOGNIZING ISLAM
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An Anthropologist s Introduction
MICHAEL GILSENAN
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RECOGNIZING ISLAM
TThhiiss ppaaggee iinntteennttiioonnaallllyy lleefftt bbllaannkk
MICHAEL GILSENAN
Recognizing Islam
AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S INTRODUCTION
CROOM HELM
London & Canberra
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Gilsenan, Michael
Recognizing Islam.
1. Islam
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments Vll
1. An Anthropologist's Introduction 9
2. The Men of Learning and Authority 27
3. The Community of Suffering and the
World Reversed 55
4. The Operations of Grace 75
5. Miracles and Worldly Power: Lords and
Sheikhs in North Lebanon 95
6. Sheikhs and the Inner Secrets 116
7. Everywhere and Nowhere: Forms of Islam
in North Africa 142
8. Forming and Transforming Space 164
9. The Sacred in the City 192
10. The World Turned Inside Out: Forms of
Islam in Egypt 215
11. Islamic Signs and Interrogations 251
Afterword: A Way of Walking 269