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Interpreting Islam / edited by Hastings Donnan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Politics and culture (London, England)Publication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 196 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 1412931843
  • 9781412931847
  • 9781446217467
  • 1446217469
  • 1280369426
  • 9781280369421
  • 9786610369423
  • 6610369429
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Interpreting Islam.DDC classification:
  • 297 21
LOC classification:
  • BP161 .I58 2002eb
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  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.80
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Contents:
Interpreting interpretations of Islam / Hastings Donnan and Martin Stokes -- Orientalism, or the politics of the text / Bryan S. Turner -- Researching the radical : the quest for a new perspective / Beverley Milton-Edwards -- Islam in the media / Malise Ruthven -- Interpreting Islam in American schools / Susan L. Douglass and Ross E. Dunn -- Ideological dimensions of Islam : a critical paradigm / Ilyas Ba-Yunus -- Kissing cousins : anthropologists on Islam / Charles Lindholm -- Islam and the sea : the causes of a failure / Xavier de Planhol -- Organized charity in the Arab-Islamic world : a view from the NGOs / Jonathan Benthall -- Silver sounds in the inner citadel? Reflections on musicology and Islam / Martin Stokes.
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Summary: Surrounded by myths and stereotypes, Islam is one of the least understood religions in the West. Interpreting Islam provides a penetrating guide to the diversity and richness of contemporary knowledge about Islam and Muslim society in general.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Interpreting interpretations of Islam / Hastings Donnan and Martin Stokes -- Orientalism, or the politics of the text / Bryan S. Turner -- Researching the radical : the quest for a new perspective / Beverley Milton-Edwards -- Islam in the media / Malise Ruthven -- Interpreting Islam in American schools / Susan L. Douglass and Ross E. Dunn -- Ideological dimensions of Islam : a critical paradigm / Ilyas Ba-Yunus -- Kissing cousins : anthropologists on Islam / Charles Lindholm -- Islam and the sea : the causes of a failure / Xavier de Planhol -- Organized charity in the Arab-Islamic world : a view from the NGOs / Jonathan Benthall -- Silver sounds in the inner citadel? Reflections on musicology and Islam / Martin Stokes.

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Surrounded by myths and stereotypes, Islam is one of the least understood religions in the West. Interpreting Islam provides a penetrating guide to the diversity and richness of contemporary knowledge about Islam and Muslim society in general.

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