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The Islamic Middle East - Charles Lindholm

The Islamic Middle East

Tradition and Change
Buch | Softcover
356 Seiten
2002 | 2nd edition
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-0146-2 (ISBN)
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* Claims that much of the Western world shares fundamental values with Middle Eastern cultures and that these similarities have often fueled dispute, but can also provide a basis for dialogue and reconciliation.

Charles Lindholm is a University Professor at Boston University, before which he taught anthropology at Barnard College and at Columbia and Harvard Universities. His previous books include Generosity and Jealousy (1982), Culture and Identity: The History, Theory, and Practice of Psychological Anthropology (2000) and Is America Breaking Apart? (reprint edition 2001).

List of Illustrations. Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Glossary.

Part I: Introduction:.

1. The Middle East: Assumptions and Problems.

Part II: Preconditions for Egalitarian Individualism:.

2. Ways of Living.

3. Traditions of Authority and Freedom.

4. The Social Construction of Egalitarianism.

Part III: State and Society: Prophets, Caliphs, Sultans and Tyrants:.

5. The Prophetic Age.

6. Early Struggles for Authority.

7. Sacred and Secular Rulers.

8. Novelties and Continuities.

Part IV: Sacred Power: Reciters, Lawyers, Incarnations and Saints:.

9. The Essentials of Islam.

10. Recapturing the Sacred Past: The Power of Knowledge.

11. The Partisans of Ali.

12. Sufism in Practice.

13. The Contradictions of Saintly Authority.

Part V: Dilemmas of Subordination:.

14. Slaves, Eunuchs and Blacks.

15. The Ambiguities of Women.

16. Escapes from Distinction: Love and Friendship.

Part VI: Conclusion:.

17. Problems and Possibilities.

Chronology of Events.

Notes.

References.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.9.2002
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 508 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-4051-0146-6 / 1405101466
ISBN-13 978-1-4051-0146-2 / 9781405101462
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