Islamic prayer across the Indian Ocean : inside and outside the mosque / edited by David Parkin and Stephen C. Headley.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Curzon Indian Ocean seriesPublication details: Richmond, Surrey : Curzon, 2000.Description: xi, 256 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0700712348
  • 9780700712342
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297.3/82/091824 21
LOC classification:
  • BP178 .I83 2000
Other classification:
  • 11.84
  • BE 8100
  • BE 8640
  • RR 10962
Online resources: Review: "Islam in characterised by a number of inner dualities and oppositions of practice and belief. In its attempt to squash the influence of animism and pantheism or polytheism and to promote the idea of the One and Only Absolute, God, Islam has come up against a tendency within itself to incorporate certain local religious traditions and practices. Islamic Prayer shares this combination of universality and local particularity. This book explores this paradox and the contradictory tendencies contained in it."--Jacket.
Item type: BOOK
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Islam in characterised by a number of inner dualities and oppositions of practice and belief. In its attempt to squash the influence of animism and pantheism or polytheism and to promote the idea of the One and Only Absolute, God, Islam has come up against a tendency within itself to incorporate certain local religious traditions and practices. Islamic Prayer shares this combination of universality and local particularity. This book explores this paradox and the contradictory tendencies contained in it."--Jacket.