Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century : Transformations and Continuities

In recent decades, traditional methods of philology and intellectual history, applied to the study of Islam and Muslim societies, have been met with considerable criticism from rising generations of scholars who have turned to the social sciences, most notably anthropology and social history, for gu...

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Other Authors: Buskens, Léon (Editor), van Sandwijk, Annemarie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 20160801
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