TY - BOOK ID - 17598121 TI - A new anthropology of Islam PY - 2012 SN - 9780521529785 9780521822824 9781139045988 1107225515 113953145X 1283575027 1139045989 9786613887474 1139526790 1139527983 113952559X 1139530267 9781139525596 9781283575027 9781139527989 9781139530262 0521822823 0521529786 9781139531450 1139539612 9781139539616 9781107225510 6613887471 9781139526791 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - -Religious anthropology KW - -Islam. Mohammedanisme KW - Anthropology of religion KW - Islamic sociology KW - 297 KW - Muslim sociology KW - Sociology, Islamic KW - Sociology KW - Religious anthropology KW - Ethnology KW - Islam. Mohammedanisme KW - Islamic sociology. KW - Sociologie religieuse KW - Anthropologie religieuse KW - Islam KW - Social Sciences KW - Anthropology KW - Anthropology of religion - Islamic countries UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17598121 AB - In this powerful, but accessible new study, John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam - revelation and learning in Arabic lands - Bowen shows how Muslims have adapted Islamic texts and traditions to ideas and conditions in the societies in which they live. Returning to key case studies in Asia, Africa and Western Europe, to explore each major domain of Islamic religious and social life, Bowen also considers the theoretical advances in social anthropology that have come out of the study of Islam. A New Anthropology of Islam is essential reading for all those interested in the study of Islam and for those following new developments in the discipline of anthropology. ER -