1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2020
Summary
The Introduction poses the problem: How should we use the word “Islam” in the study of Islam. People write about Islam as if it was a single entity, but a text from the Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭah illustrates that Muslims traveling in Islamdom found significant variations from place to place. How does this affect our field of study?
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- Lived IslamColloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan Tradition, pp. 1 - 10Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020