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Lawrence Rosen, "Varieties of Muslim Experience: Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life"

With tensions between the West and the Islamic world running high—from xenophobic rhetoric about immigrants in Europe to President Bush’s call for a “crusade” against terrorism—it is more important than ever that we understand the role of religion and political culture in everyday Muslim society.

In Varieties of Muslim Experience, anthropologist Lawrence Rosen explores aspects of Arab Muslim life that are, at first glance, perplexing to Westerners. He ranges over such diverse topics as why Arabs eschew portraiture, why a Muslim scientist might be attracted to fundamentalism, and why the Prophet must be protected from blasphemous cartoons. What connects these seemingly disparate features of Arab social, political, and cultural life? Rosen argues that the common thread is the importance Arabs place on the negotiation of interpersonal relationships—a link that helps to explain actions as seemingly unfathomable as suicide bombing and as elusive as Quranic interpretation.

Written with eloquence and a deep knowledge of the entire spectrum of Muslim experience, Rosen’s book will interest not only anthropologists and Islamicists but anyone invested in better understanding the Arab world.

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Every form of belief & social organization can be summed up with four words - the oppression of intelligence. All these religions, political systems assume that humans have little intelligence & are nasty creatures needing taming. Whereas the truth is that these imposed systems thwart genuine development & twist human nature into sheer selfishness.

Every problem of human interaction is one of an exaggerated self orientation. All the ideals of humanity are part of that self indulgence. Sadly few realize that religious & political thought/beliefs are just that thought... just ideas - not real.

Get beyond the social self & you understand that people are greedy due to a system which ignorantly & often intentionally declares lack. Get beyond the social self & you understand that people are violent due to the fact that they fear. From where does fear come???

Take a closer look at yourself, but not thru the lens of religion nor politics, nor even so called science. Use your innate intelligence, allow that which lies dormant to awaken.

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