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The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam

1986 · by Talal Asad

Occasional paper of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown: Islam is neither a single essence nor a collection of local “islams” but a discursive tradition that relates practices to the founding texts and teaches their correct form.

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