Beyond Islam
Subtitle: a new understanding of the Middle East
By: Sami Zubaida
Series: Library of modern Middle East studies -- v. 84; Library of modern Middle East studies -- 84.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781848850699; 9781848850705
Subjects: Social life and customs; Civilization; Islam; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Is there a Muslim society? : Ernest Gellner's sociology of Islam; title: Political modernity in the Middle East; title: Shifting social boundaries and identities in the modern Middle East; title: Cosmopolitans, nationalists and fundamentalists in the modern Middle East; title: The public and the private in Middle Eastern history and society; title: Islam and nationalism : continuities and contradictions.