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Islam

Islam and the Rule of Justice Image and Reality in Muslim Law and Culture

Rosen Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780226511603, ISBN: HB: 9780226511573, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

In the West, we tend to think of Islamic law as an arcane and rigid legal system, bound by formulaic texts yet suffused by unfettered discretion. While judges may indeed refer to passages in the classical texts or have recourse to their own orientati...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew Entangled Lives in Morocco

Rosen Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780226317489, ISBN: HB: 9780226317342, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 halftones, 1 table

In this remarkable work by seasoned scholar Lawrence Rosen, we follow the fascinating intellectual developments of four ordinary Moroccans over the span of forty years. Walking and talking with Haj Hamed Britel, Yaghnik Driss, Hussein Qadir, and Shim...

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Anthropology

Islam

Varieties of Muslim Experience Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life

Rosen Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780226726175, ISBN: HB: 9780226726168, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
278 pp., 22.2x14.6 cm

In "Varieties of Muslim Experience", anthropologist Lawrence Rosen explores aspects of Arab Muslim life that are, at first glance, perplexing to Westerners. He ranges over such diverse topics as why Arabs eschew portraiture, why a Muslim scientist mi...

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