Description |
xxxvi, 564 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Series |
New directions in anthropological writing |
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New directions in anthropological writing.
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Note |
Includes glossary. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-544) and index. |
Contents |
Part I. Oral life worlds. 1. Shiʻite socialization in Pahlavi Iran : autobiographical Sondages in a postmodern world ---- Part II. Texts, Con-texts, and pre-texts. 2. Qurʼanic dialogics : Islamic poetics and politics for Muslims and for us --- 3. Fear of différance : the Hajj "rodeo" --- 4. Social change and the mirrors of tradition : Baha'is of Yazd ---- Part II. Shifting ritual grounds (To Houston). 5. Diasporas : re-membering and re-creating ---- Part VI. Visual projects. 6. Concluding notes : autographically changing Iran-minor media and bicultural graphics --- 7. Postcriptural parergon : Bombay talkies, the word and the world : Salman Rusdie's Satanic Verses ---- Appendixes. 1. Alternative Traditional Orderings of the Qur'an --- 2. The Ring, Octagon, or Eight Propositions of Political Wisdom --- 3. The Imam's Blasphemystic Ghazal. |
Summary |
In a world of multinational commerce, satellite broadcasting, migration, terrorism, and global arms dealing, what is said and how it is said in one society can no longer be isolated from what is said and how it is said in another. Debating Muslims focuses on Iranian culture, Shiite Islam, and Iranians in the United States, offering an experiment in postmodern ethnography and an invitation to think in a multifaceted way about Islam in the contemporary world. -- Publisher description. |
Subject |
Shīʻah -- Iran.
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Shiites -- United States.
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Iran -- Social life and customs.
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Shīʻah -- History -- 20th century.
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Iranians -- United States -- Social life and customs.
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Islam.
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Iranians -- Social life and customs.
(OCoLC)fst00978824
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Shīʻah. (OCoLC)fst01117946
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Shiites. (OCoLC)fst01115976
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Iran. (OCoLC)fst01204889
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Islam.
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Islam. (DE-588)4027743-4
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Politik. (DE-588)4046514-7
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Schiiten. (DE-588)4052455-3
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Sozialer Wandel. (DE-588)4077587-2
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Iran. (DE-588)4027653-3
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United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
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Schiiten.
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United States.
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Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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Indexed Term |
Iran Social life and customs |
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Iranians Social life and customs United States |
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Shiites United States |
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Shīʻah History 20th century |
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Shīʻah Iran |
Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Added Author |
Abedi, Mehdi, joint author.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Fischer, Michael M.J., 1946- Debating Muslims. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1990 (OCoLC)642405392 |
ISBN |
0299124304 |
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9780299124304 |
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0299124347 (pbk.) |
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9780299124342 (pbk.) |
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