Author: Cole, Juan R. I.; editor :
Title: Comparing Muslim Societies : Knowledge and the State in a World Civilization
Description: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, (1992). orig. cloth. xiv,328 pp, 24x15cm,. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 8 papers. includes: Nikki R. Keddie "Material Culture, Technology,& Geography: Toward a Holistic Comparative Study of the Middle East"; C. Lindholm "Quandaries of Command in Egalitarian Societies: Examples from Swat & Morocco"; D.F. Eickelman "The Art of Memory: Islamic Education & Its Social Reproduction"; A. Christelow "The Muslim Judge & Municipal Politics in Colonial Algeria & Senegal"; C.D. Smith "The Intellectual, Islam, & Modernisation: Haykal and Shari'ati"; E. Goldberg "Smashing Idols & the State: The Protestant Ethic & Egyptian Sunni Radicalism"; D. Kandiyoti "Women, Islam, & the State: A Comparative Approach"; S. Akhavi " Shi'ism, Corporatism, & Rentierism in the Iranian Revolution".

Keywords: Islam, Comparative, Social Theory, History of Religion, Islamic, Muslim Society, Sociology, Historical,