Islam in Practice Dr Ian Lidbury

Islam in Practice Dr Ian LidburyThis book is a unique study of Shi'a Islam as it lives in the minds and hearts of people in a Southwest Iranian village. The central segment of the text is presented in the form of edited interviews conducted in the course of anthropological fieldwork both before and after the Iranian revolution. The individuals, representing all major socio economic and educational backgrounds, speak in their own words. Loeffler discovers that what people make of

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Pictures don't tell stories-but many of them call to mind stories or have stories about their making

the growth of the "Perfect and Complete" version of the Islamic ascension tale that spread throughout the Muslim world

assigning a cardinal value to them remains elusive

and examining the content of the codes themselves

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Examines just how ‘constructed’ a national identity is – past and present

questions of legal and historical evidence

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University of MichiganñFlint

the book offers a better understanding of the mysterious complexity and startling creative powers of human dreaming experience