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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Islam.
Islam.
RELIGION--Islam--General.
Islam.
Manners and customs.
Islam.


Islamic countries--Social life and customs.
Islamic countries.


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