Description: Muslim Difference : Defining the Line Between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present, Hardcover by Patel, Youshaa, ISBN 0300248962, ISBN-13 9780300248968, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A sweeping history of Muslim identity from its origins in late antiquity to the present How did Muslims across time and place define the line between themselves and their neighbors? Youshaa Patel explores why the Prophet Muhammad first advised his followers to emulate Christians and Jews, but then allegedly reversed course, urging them to “be different!” He details how subsequent generations of Muslim scholars canonized the Prophet’s admonition into an influential doctrine against imitation that enjoined ordinary believers to embody and display their religious difference in public life. Tracing this Islamic discourse from its origins in Arabia to Mamluk and Ottoman Damascus, colonial Egypt, and beyond, this sweeping intellectual and social history offers a panoramic view of Muslim identity, revealing unexpected intersections between religion and other markers of difference across ethnicity, gender, and status. Patel illustrates that contemporary debates in the West over visible expressions of Islam, from headscarves and beards to minarets and mosques, are just the latest iterations in a long history of how small differences have defined Muslim interreligious encounters.
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Book Title: Muslim Difference : Defining the Line Between Believers and Unbel
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Publication Name: Muslim Difference : Defining the Line Between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Islam / Theology, Islam / Law, Islam / History
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.9 Oz
Author: Youshaa Patel
Item Length: 9.6 in
Subject Area: Religion
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
