Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan - Couverture souple

Bush, J. Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1503614581 ISBN 13 : 9781503614581

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Within the broad contours of Islamic traditions, Muslims are enjoined to fast during the month of Ramadan, they are invited to a disciplined practice of prayer, and they are offered the Quran as the divine revelation in the most beautiful verbal form. But what happens if Muslims choose not to fast, or give up prayer, or if the Quran's beauty seems inaccessible? When Muslims do not take up the path of piety, what happens to their relationships with more devout Muslims who are neighbors, friends, and kin?

Between Muslims provides an ethnographic account of Iraqi Kurdish Muslims who turn away from devotional piety yet remain intimately engaged with Islamic traditions and with other Muslims. Andrew Bush offers a new way to understand religious difference in Islam, rejecting simple stereotypes about ethnic or sectarian identities. Integrating textual analysis of poetry, sermons, and Islamic history into accounts of everyday life in Iraqi Kurdistan, Between Muslims illuminates the interplay of attraction and aversion to Islam among ordinary Muslims.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

J. Andrew Bush is a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1503614581
• ISBN 13: 9781503614581
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible