Author: Gellner, Ernest
Title: Muslim Society
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1983). orig. wrappers. 23x15cm, ix, 267 pp. Some page-edge spotting & soil. Spine faded & creased.. Name on half-title. Some cover soil. Good. ¶ Series: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, no. 32. Contents: Flux and Reflux in the Faith of Men; Cohesion and Identity: The Maghreb from Ibn Khaldun to Emile Durkheim; Post-Traditional Forms in Islam: The Turf and Trade, and Votes and Peanuts; Doctor and Saint; Sanctity, Puritanism, Secularisation and Nationalism in North Africa: A Case Study; The Unknown Apollo of Biskra: The Social Base of Algerian Puritanism; Trousers in Tunisia; The Sociology of Robert Montagne (1893-195 4); Pattens of Rural Rebellion in Marocco During the Early Years of Independence; Saints and their Descendants; The Marabouts in the Market- Place; Rulers and Tribesmen.

Keywords: Islamic Sociology, Islam, North Africa, Social Anthropology, Maghreb Mabhrib, Ethnology, Algeria, History of Religion,