Encounters with Islam: Studies in the Anthropology of Muslim Cultures

By Lawrence Rosen

Book Overview

Too often, Western encounters with the Islamic world commence with stereotypes and end with a renewed distance. Drawing from decades of experience studying the Muslim world, Lawrence Rosen challenges these narrow understandings. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Rosen shows the wide-ranging significance of Muslim art, culture, and law around the world. Exploring political, economic, and social encounters within and with the Muslim world across the eras, he considers a wide range of contexts - from fifteenth-century mosaics in Central Asia that reveal a complex understanding of mathematics, to the political choices available to the youth of modern-day Morocco and Cairo. With in-depth analyses of art, law, and religion, and how they informed one another, Rosen develops a vibrant, nuanced portrait of the Islamic world. Drawing linkages across time, regions, and cultures, this is a significant anthropological study of the Islamic world from a seasoned scholar.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009389033
• ISBN13: 9781009389037
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"