{"product_id":"encounters-with-islam-studies-in-the-anthropology-of-muslim-cultures-hardback-9781009389037","title":"Encounters with Islam; Studies in the Anthropology of Muslim Cultures (Hardback) 9781009389037","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEncounters with Islam\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStudies in the Anthropology of Muslim Cultures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOffers an interdisciplinary anthropological study of the Islamic world – exploring art, law, and religion – to challenge existing stereotypes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLawrence Rosen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009389037, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 September 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.45 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eToo 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: theme and variation in the encounter of cultures\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Expressive: 1. Choice and chaos: the social meaning of an Islamic art form\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Legal: 2. Tribal law as Islamic law\u003cbr\u003e 3. The meaning of the gift\u003cbr\u003e 4. Islam and the rule of law\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Political: 5. Anthropological assumptions and the Afghan war\u003cbr\u003e 6. Aging out? Youth in the aftermath of the Arab spring\u003cbr\u003e 7. Missionaries and Muslims: Moroccan engagement with the western other\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Critical: 8. Clifford Geertz, observing Islam\u003cbr\u003e 9. Edward Said's unfinished critique: Orientalism revisited.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Middle Eastern history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Middle Eastern history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Middle%20Eastern%20history%20%5BHBJF1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52413997809944,"sku":"9781009389037","price":63.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009389037i.jpg?v=1784334805","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/encounters-with-islam-studies-in-the-anthropology-of-muslim-cultures-hardback-9781009389037","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}