Varieties of Muslim experience encounters with Arab political and cultural life /

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Autor principal: Rosen, Lawrence, 1941-
Autor corporatiu: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Taula de continguts:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction : presenting and re-presenting Islam
  • Just and not just
  • Junk democracy : Middle East meets Middle America
  • What (if anything) went wrong? personalism, institutions, and the unfractionated self
  • Why do Arab terrorists kill themselves?
  • On the meaning of ownership : the problematic of property in Moroccan culture
  • Islamic concepts of justice
  • Readings and re-readings
  • Reading the Quran through Western eyes
  • Why portraits hold no meaning for Arabs
  • Protecting the Prophet : understanding Muslim reactions to the Danish cartoon controversy
  • Theorizing from within : Ibn Khaldun and the understanding of Arab political culture
  • Representatives and representations
  • Knowledge forms : scientists as fundamentalists
  • Expecting the unexpected : cultural components of Arab governance
  • Power and culture in the acceptance of "universal" human rights
  • Afterword.