num_pages: 324
description: "This is a well-argued and long overdue articulation of a situation already perceived intuitively by many observers of traditional communities professing a salvation religion--especially Islam--but generally obscured in the literature by the observer's preconceptions. Here, by contrast, Iranian peasants and settled tribesmen talk directly to us for the first their attitudes and Loeffler's conclusions are a salutory and necessary counter to all the recent studies of Iran's urban-based 'Islamic Revolution' and of 'Islam' as an artifact of the establishment clergy, or of Marxist revisionists, or of western and westernized scholars." -- John R. Perry, University of Chicago
language: English
title: Islam in Practice: Religious Beliefs in a Persian Village
titlecomplete: Islam in Practice: Religious Beliefs in a Persian Village
genres: Islam
ratings_count: 5
publisher: State University of New York Press