Interpreting Islam /
edited by Hastings Donnan.
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2002.
- 1 online resource (viii, 196 pages).
- Politics and culture .
- Politics and culture (London, England) .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Interpreting interpretations of Islam / Hastings Donnan and Martin Stokes -- Orientalism, or the politics of the text / Bryan S. Turner -- Researching the radical : the quest for a new perspective / Beverley Milton-Edwards -- Islam in the media / Malise Ruthven -- Interpreting Islam in American schools / Susan L. Douglass and Ross E. Dunn -- Ideological dimensions of Islam : a critical paradigm / Ilyas Ba-Yunus -- Kissing cousins : anthropologists on Islam / Charles Lindholm -- Islam and the sea : the causes of a failure / Xavier de Planhol -- Organized charity in the Arab-Islamic world : a view from the NGOs / Jonathan Benthall -- Silver sounds in the inner citadel? Reflections on musicology and Islam / Martin Stokes.
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Surrounded by myths and stereotypes, Islam is one of the least understood religions in the West. Interpreting Islam provides a penetrating guide to the diversity and richness of contemporary knowledge about Islam and Muslim society in general.
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