Sociology and Anthropology of Islam a Critical Debate

• Main Author: Marranci, G.
• Other Authors: SOCIOLOGY
• Format: Others
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Christians and Muslims having faith in the same God; Eurocentric historical evolutionarism; From the village to global village - "exotic" ethnographies ending entangled in kinship, sufi saints and segmentary theories; Gender and ISLAM - not only women - Muslim women, attracting attention of the west.; Islam, a monotheistic religion and part of so-called Abrahamic family - Jews; Qur'an, most sacred source of Islam - and Prophet Muhammad as the perfect example of what it means to be Muslim; Sociology and anthropology of Islam - a critical debate; Sociology and anthropology of Islam debated; Weber's incomplete macro-sociological attempt - ultimate explanation of Islam as a cultural and social system
• Online Access: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/114239
• Institution: National University of Singapore

10.1002/9781444320787.ch16