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

© Daniel Varisco, 2005. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

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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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