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Lawrence Rosen

The Culture of Islam

Changing Aspects of Contemporary Muslim Life

246 pages,  6 x 9  © 2002

Cloth $24.00

ISBN: 9780226726137   Published January 2003

Paper $19.00

ISBN: 9780226726151   Published June 2004

Introduction
PART ONE ~ Ambivalent Culture
1. The Circle of Beneficence: Narrating Coherence in a World of Corruption
2. Ambivalence towards Power: Approaches to Authority in Postcolonial Morocco
3.What Is a Tribe, and Why Does It Matter?
4. Constructing Institutions on a Political Culture of Personalism
PART TWO ~ Memory Worlds, Plausible Worlds
5. Contesting Sainthood
6. Memory in Morocco
7. Have the Arabs Changed Their Mind?
PART THREE ~ Shifting Concepts, Discerning Change
8. Marriage Stories: Crossing the Boundaries of Nation, Gender, and Law
9. Euro-Islam
10. Never in Doubt: Salman Rushdie's Deeper Challenge to Islam
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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