Varieties of Muslim Experience: Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life

by Lawrence Rosen

Book Overview

In Varieties of Muslim Experience, anthropologist Lawrence Rosen explores aspects of Arab Muslim life that are, at first glance, perplexing to Westerners. He ranges over such diverse topics as why Arabs eschew portraiture, why a Muslim scientist might be attracted to fundamentalism, and why the Prophet must be protected from blasphemous cartoons. What connects these seemingly disparate features of Arab social, political, and cultural life?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226726177
• ISBN13: 9780226726175
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"