REL 3786 Chapter : 3786 Syllabus
Document Summary
Off the straight path: illicit sex, law, and community in ottoman. Aleppo; gender, culture, and politics in the middle east. Books are available at the co-op bookstore on burbank dr. The muslim world today encompasses approximately 1. 4 billion people inhabiting a vast geographic domain. This bloc, united by islam but distinguished by numerous cultural, racial, economic, and ethnic differences, defies singular descriptions. 14 centuries, is equally rich in its diversity and throws into relief the broad variety of stimuli, both textual and contextual, that have been at work in the complex, lived reality of muslim public and private life. More than a religious fraternity, islam is a recognizable cultural abode, a political association and a social idea; a philosophy encapsulated in the maxim, din wa-dawla (religion and state). To fail to appreciate this facet of islam, and its attendant legal, philosophical, mystical, artistic and political dimensions, is to neglect the elements that together comprise the abode of islam" (dar al-islam).
