Beyond Islam: a new understanding of the Middle East
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Beteilige Person: Zubaida, Sami 1937- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London I.B. Tauris 2011
Schriftenreihe:Library of modern Middle East studies 84
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index
Is there a Muslim society? : Ernest Gellner's sociology of Islam -- Political modernity in the Middle East -- Shifting social boundaries and identities in the modern Middle East -- Cosmopolitans, nationalists and fundamentalists in the modern Middle East -- The public and the private in Middle Eastern history and society -- Islam and nationalism : continuities and contradictions
In this magisterial work, Sami Zubaida draws on a distinguished career's worth of experience trying to understand the region to address the fundamental question in Middle East studies: what is the Middle East? He argues, controversially, that to see it through the prism of Islam, as it is conventionally viewed, is to completely misunderstand it. Many of what we think of as the 'Islamic' characteristics of the region are products of culture and society, not religion. To think of Islam itself as an essential, anti-modern force in the region rather than something shaped by specific historical-econ
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DOI:10.5040/9780755610624