TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosen,Lawrence
TI  - Varieties of Muslim experience: encounters with Arab political and cultural life 
SN  - 9780226726175 (pbk.) :
AV  - DS36.88 .R67 2011
PY  - 2011///, 2008
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Islam
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Originally published in cloth in 2008; Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-265) and index; Acknowledgments -- Introduction : presenting and re-presenting Islam -- Just and not just -- Junk democracy : Middle East meets Middle America -- What (if anything) went wrong? personalism, institutions, and the unfractionated self -- Why do Arab terrorists kill themselves? -- On the meaning of ownership : the problematic of property in Moroccan culture -- Islamic concepts of justice -- Readings and re-readings -- Reading the Quran through Western eyes -- Why portraits hold no meaning for Arabs -- Protecting the Prophet : understanding Muslim reactions to the Danish cartoon controversy -- Theorizing from within : Ibn Khaldun and the understanding of Arab political culture -- Representatives and representations -- Knowledge forms : scientists as fundamentalists -- Expecting the unexpected : cultural components of Arab governance -- Power and culture in the acceptance of "universal" human rights -- Afterword
ER  -