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Product details
- ISBN 9780813027210
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 154 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jun 2004
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally written in the wake of the Gulf War, this book introduced the West to everyday Arab-Islamic cultures and societies, humanizing the region and its people. It venlured behind the handlines to offer a positive, constructive view of Islam and Muslims, showing how Islam is lived and practiced in daily life. Now revised and expanded in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Islamic Societies in Practice embraces the breadth of global Islam with significant new material on Islam in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States, as well as the Middle East New maps and illustrations are included, detailing the diversity and reprosentation of Islam and Muslims throughout the world. Additional material includes discussions of male and female relations; folk Islam, popular expressions of faith, and the five pillars; Sufism, including the Turkish Dervishes; ethnic and racial differences in the Muslim world; Islamic law and the application of harsh punishments; political Islam and the future of the state in the Islamic world; and the many voices of progressive Muslims - feminists, human rights activists, and anti-extremist writers.
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban is professor of anthropology at Rhode Island College. She is the editor of Against Islamic Extremism(UPF, 1998).
