Recognizing Islam: An Anthropologist’s Introduction PDF
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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: POLITICS OF ISLAM RECOGNIZING ISLAM TThhiiss ppaaggee iinntteennttiioonnaallllyy lleefftt bbllaannkk RECOGNIZING ISLAM ’ An Anthropologist s Introduction MICHAEL GILSENAN Volume 11 Firstpublishedin1982 Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2013 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1982MichaelGilsenan Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintent toinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-0-415-64437-2(Set) eISBN:978-0-203-07906-5(Set) ISBN:978-0-415-83083-6(Volume11) eISBN:978-0-203-38130-4 (Volume11) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwould welcomecorrespondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. RECOGNIZING ISLAM TThhiiss ppaaggee iinntteennttiioonnaallllyy lleefftt bbllaannkk MICHAEL GILSENAN Recognizing Islam AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S INTRODUCTION CROOM HELM London & Canberra British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Gilsenan, Michael Recognizing Islam. 1. Islam I. Title 297 BP161.2 ISBN 0-7099-1119-X 0-7099-1139-4 Pbk Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd, Guildford and King's Lynn CONTENTS Acknowledgments Vll 1. An Anthropologist's Introduction 9 2. The Men of Learning and Authority 27 3. The Community of Suffering and the World Reversed 55 4. The Operations of Grace 75 5. Miracles and Worldly Power: Lords and Sheikhs in North Lebanon 95 6. Sheikhs and the Inner Secrets 116 7. Everywhere and Nowhere: Forms of Islam in North Africa 142 8. Forming and Transforming Space 164 9. The Sacred in the City 192 10. The World Turned Inside Out: Forms of Islam in Egypt 215 11. Islamic Signs and Interrogations 251 Afterword: A Way of Walking 269
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