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Routledge
292 Pages
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Routledge
296 Pages
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Routledge
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Islam is more than a set of laws, rites and beliefs presented as a religious and social totality. As a word it covers a multitude of everyday forms and practices that are interwoven in complex, sometimes almost invisible ways in daily existence. Drawing exclusively on his own fieldwork in Egypt, South Arabia and the Lebanon, the author explores the nature of Islam and its impact on the daily... Read more
Acknowledgements. 1. An Anthropologist’s Introduction 2. The Men of Learning and Authority 3. The Community of Suffering and the World Reversed 4. The Operations of Grace 5. Miracles and Worldly Power: Lords and Sheikhs in North Lebanon 6. Sheikhs and the Inner Secrets 7. Everywhere and Nowhere: Forms of Islam in North Africa 8. Forming and Transforming Space 9. The Sacred in the City 10. The World Turned Inside Out: Forms of Islam in Egypt 11. Islamic Signs and Interrogations. Afterword: A Way of Walking. Note on Transliteration. References. Select Bibliography. Index
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Michael Gilsenan
