Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and TraditionIn 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, Shi'ite 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. |
Contents
Oral Life Worlds | 1 |
Class Distinctions | 31 |
Secondary School Sexual Purity and Marriage | 37 |
Ideological Crucible | 75 |
Lawrence Kansas | 84 |
Texts Contexts and Pretexts | 93 |
Dialogue and Presence | 101 |
The Graphics of Absence | 112 |
Shifting Ritual Grounds To Houston | 251 |
Visual Projections | 333 |
Bombay Talkies the Word and the World | 383 |
Alternative Traditional Orderings of the Quran | 445 |
The Imams Blasphemystic Ghazal | 451 |
Notes | 455 |
Glossary | 505 |
Bibliography | 525 |
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