Interpreting Islam / edited by Hastings Donnan. - New Delhi : Vistaar, 2002. - viii, 196 p. ; 24 cm. - Politics and culture . - Politics and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Interpreting interpretations of Islam / Hastings Donnan and Martin Stokes -- 2. Orientalism, or the politics of the text / Bryan S. Turner -- 3. Researching the radical: The quest for a new perspective / Beverley Milton-Edwards -- 4. Islam in the media / Malise Ruthven -- 5. Interpreting Islam in American schools / Susan L. Douglass and Ross E. Dunn -- 6. Ideological dimensions of Islam: A critical paradigm / Ilyas Ba-Yunus -- 7. Kissing cousins: Anthropologists on Islam / Charles Lindholm -- 8. Islam and the sea: The causes of a failure / Xavier de Planhol -- 9. Organized charity in the Arab-Islamic world: A view from the NGOs / Jonathan Benthall -- 10. Silver sounds in the inner citadel? Reflections on musicology and Islam / Martin Stokes.

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