Islam Obscured The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation
Ethnographers have observed Muslims nearly everywhere Islam is practiced. This study analyzes four seminal texts that have been read widely outside anthropology. Two are by distinguished anthropologists on either side of the Atlantic, Islam Observed (by C
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ISLAM OBSCURED
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CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY
OF
RELIGION
A series published with the Society for the Anthropology of Religion
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Islam Obscured
Daniel Martin Varisco
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The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation
ISLAM OBSCURED
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The anthropologist taking a phenomenological approach focuses on the daily lived experience of the local islams and leaves the study of theological interpretation to the Islamists. Abdul Hamid el-Zein
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