Varieties of Muslim Experience
：Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life
Publication subTitle ：Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life
Author： Lawrence Rosen
Publisher： University of Chicago Press
Publication year： 2008
E-ISBN: 9780226726182
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780226726168
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780226726175
Subject： C0 Social Science Theory and Methodology
Language： ENG
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Description
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? Rosen argues that the common thread is the importance Arabs place on the negotiation of interpersonal relationships—a link that helps to explain actions as seemingly unfathomable as suicide bombing and as elusive as Quranic interpretation.
Written with eloquence and a deep knowledge of the entire spectrum of Muslim experience, Rosen’s book will interest not only anthropologists and Islamicists but anyone invested in better understanding the Arab world.