Research Catalog

Title

Muslim diversity : local Islam in global contexts / edited by Leif Manger.

Publication

Surrey : Curzon, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Manger, Leif O.

Description

260 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

NIAS studies in Asian topics, 0142-6208 ; 26

Uniform Title

NIAS studies in Asian topics ; 26.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Islam > 20th century
• Islam > Cross-cultural studies
• Muslims > Social conditions
• 11.83 movements within Islam
• Islam
• Muslims > Social conditions
• Politics and government
• Islam
• Pluriformiteit
• Islam > Cross-cultural studies
• Islam > History > 20th century
• Musulmans > Conditions sociales
• Islam > 20e siècle
• Islamic countries > Politics and government
• Islamic countries
• Islamic countries > Politics and government
• Pays islamiques > Politique et gouvernement

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Muslim diversity: local Islam in global contexts -- Global migrants and local shrines: the shifting geography of Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh -- The theological construction of conflict: Gilgit, Northern Pakistan -- Jihad in West Africa: a global theme in a regional setting -- The Salafiyya movement in Northwest China: Islamic fundamentalism among the Muslim Chinese? -- To colour, not oppose: spreading Islam in rural Java -- Faith and identity in Northeast Syria -- The mosque and the sacred mountain: duality of religious beliefs among the Zaghawa of Northwestern Sudan -- On becoming Muslim: the construction of identities among the Lafofa of the Sudan -- Afterword: the compartive study of Muslim societies.

ISBN

• 070071104X
• 9780700711048

LCCN

00297805

OCLC

• ocm43403529
• 43403529
• SCSB-575739

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library