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What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic
Shahab Ahmed
What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic
Shahab Ahmed
What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cultural)? Or should we abandon "Islamic" altogether as an anal
624 pages, 12 b/w illus., 1 map
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 31, 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9780691178318 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 632 |
Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 35 mm · 914 g |
Language | English |