Comparing Muslim Societies: Knowledge and the State in a World Civilization

✍ Scribed by Juan R.I. Cole

Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Leaves: 342
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A study of the diversity of Muslim life and culture that challenges conventional Western opinion

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
Part 1. Structure and Symbol
Material Culture, Technology, and Geography: Toward a
Holistic Comparative Study of the Middle East
Quandaries of Command in Egalitarian Societies: Examples from Swat and Morocco
Part 2. Symbol and Habitus
The Art of Memory: Islamic Education and Its Social Reproduction
The Muslim Judge and Municipal Politics in Colonial Algeria and Senegal
The Intellectual, Islam, and Modernization: Haykal and Shari‘ati
Part 3. States and Social Structures
Smashing Idols and the State: The Protestant Ethic and Egyptian Sunni Radicalism
Women, Islam, and the State: A Comparative Approach
Shiism, Corporatism, and Rentierism in the Iranian Revolution
Contributors
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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