Ernest Gellner

Muslim Society

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Produktbeschreibung

Of all the world religions, Islam appears to have the most powerful political appeal in the twentieth century. This book seeks the roots of this situation in the past and explores the mechanisms which have contributed to the civilisation in which (in the main) weak states co-existed with a strong culture, which had a powerful hold over the populations under its sway.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 1983
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780521274074
• ISBN-10: 0521274079
• Artikelnr.: 21173849

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Flux and reflux in the faith of men
2. Cohesion and identity: the Maghreb from Ibn Khaldun to Emile Durkheim
3. Post-traditional forms in Islam: the turf and trade, and votes and peanuts
4. Doctor and saint
5. Sanctity, puritanism, secularisation and nationalism in North Africa: a case study
6. The unknown Apollo of Biskra: the social base of Algerian puritanism
7. Trousers in Tunisia
8. The sociology of Robert Montagne (1893-1954)
9. Patterns of rural rebellion in Morocco during the early years of independence
10. Saints and their descendants
11. The marabouts in the market place
12. Rulers and tribesmen
Notes
Bibliography of Ernest Gellner's North African writings
Index.