Magnus Marsden

Living Islam

Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's North-West Frontier

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Marsden's 2005 book is a powerful contribution to the understanding of religion in the Muslim societies of southern Asia and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780521852234
• ISBN-10: 0521852234
• Artikelnr.: 21445767

Autorenporträt

Magnus Marsden is Lecturer on the anthropology of Islam, as well as on religion and politics in Pakistan, at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Rowshan: Chitral village life
3. Emotions upside-down: affection and Islam
4. The play of the mind: debating village Muslims
5. Mahfils and musicians: new Muslims in Markaz
6. Rowshan's amulet making ulama
7. To eat or not to eat: Ismai'lis and Sunnis in Rowshan
8. Conclusion.

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1. Introduction; 2. Rowshan: Chitral village life; 3. Emotions upside-down: affection and Islam; 4. The play of the mind: debating village Muslims; 5. Mahfils and musicians: new Muslims in Markaz; 6. Rowshan's amulet making ulama; 7. To eat or not to eat: Ismai'lis and Sunnis in Rowshan; 8. Conclusion.

Rezensionen

'Magnus Marsden has joined the ranks of the great ethnographers of the British Empire who described and wrote about the peoples of the Indian subcontinent with accuracy and even affection. Marsden's lucid and insightful work, based in Chitral, one of the most isolated and least known societies in the subcontinent, comes as a relief after the stereotypes and caricatures which pass for commentary in the media about Muslim societies.' Akbar Ahmed, The Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and Professor of International Relations, American University, Washington D.C.