Varieties of Muslim Experience

Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life

By: Lawrence Rosen

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Hardcover | 1 December 2007 | Edition Number 1

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With tensions between the West and the Islamic world running high--from xenophobic rhetoric about immigrants in Europe to President Bush's call for a "crusade" against terrorism--it is more important than ever that we understand the role of religion and political culture in everyday Muslim society.
In "Varieties of Muslim Experience," anthropologist Lawrence Rosen explores aspects of Arab Muslim life that are, at first glance, perplexing to Westerners. He ranges over such diverse topics as why Arabs eschew portraiture, why a Muslim scientist might be attracted to fundamentalism, and why the Prophet must be protected from blasphemous cartoons. What connects these seemingly disparate features of Arab social, political, and cultural life? Rosen argues that the common thread is the importance Arabs place on the negotiation of interpersonal relationships--a link that helps to explain actions as seemingly unfathomable as suicide bombing and as elusive as Quranic interpretation.
Written with eloquence and a deep knowledge of the entire spectrum of Muslim experience, Rosen's book will interest not only anthropologists and Islamicists but anyone invested in better understanding the Arab world.

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"Rosen tackles such issues as Arab ideas of justice, human rights, reading the Koran in the West, representations of the Prophet.... A provocative, elegantly written book on which to ponder." (Choice)"

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Presenting and Re-presenting Islam	p. 1
Just and Not Just	p. 9
Junk Democracy: Middle East Meets Middle America	p. 11
What (If Anything) Went Wrong? Personalism, Institutions, and the Unfractionated Self	p. 23
Why Do Arab Terrorists Kill Themselves?	p. 39
On the Meaning of Ownership: The Problematic of Property in Moroccan Culture	p. 47
Islamic Concepts of Justice	p. 60
Readings and Re-readings	p. 73
Reading the Quran through Western Eyes	p. 75
Why Portraits Hold No Meaning for Arabs	p. 93
Protecting the Prophet: Understanding Muslim Reactions to the Danish Cartoon Controversy	p. 105
Theorizing from Within: Ibn Khaldun and the Understanding of Arab Political Culture	p. 121
Representatives and Representations	p. 131
Knowledge Forms: Scientists as Fundamentalists	p. 133
Expecting the Unexpected: Cultural Components of Arab Governance	p. 152
Power and Culture in the Acceptance of "Universal" Human Rights	p. 169
Afterword	p. 185
Notes	p. 187
References	p. 243
Index	p. 267
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