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Recognizing Islam: Religion and Society in the Modern Middle East - Softcover
Author: Michael Gilsenan
ISBN: 9781860644092
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 288
Weight: 383 grams
Recent crises in the Middle East have flooded the media with sensationalist and inaccurate portraits of Islam. Offering an original and much needed understanding of the role of religion in this turbulent region, Michael Gilsenan shows that Islam covers a multitude of forms and practices which are woven into daily existence in complex and sometimes almost invisible ways. All the western stereotypes of Islam and Muslims need to be treated with considerable scepticism.
Drawing extensively on his own fieldwork in cities, villages and tribal communities in the Middle East, Gilsenan explores a variety of social worlds all claiming Islamic affiliation: the feudal aristocracy of northern Lebanon, the working class Sufi brotherhoods of Egypt and the new bourgeoisies of Algeria and Morocco. In each, he shows how Islam evolves in relation to shifting social, political, economic and class structures. The impact of colonialism is also discussed, and reformist and radical movements are analysed in relation to changes in Middle Eastern society as a whole.