Lost in the Sacred: Why the Muslim World Stood Still Hardcover - 2009
by Diner, Dan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
Diner sets out to describe why the Arab world changes so slowly, in this controversial but refreshingly un-Anglo-Saxon search for answers to some outsized questions."--(Michael Cook, Princeton University).
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- Title Lost in the Sacred: Why the Muslim World Stood Still
- Author Diner, Dan
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Printing
- Condition Used - Near Fine
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, U.S.A.
- Date 2009
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 365363
- ISBN 9780691129112 / 0691129118
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Arab World
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Religious Orientation: Islamic
- Library of Congress subjects Islamic countries - History, Islamic countries - Civilization
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008035413
- Dewey Decimal Code 909.097
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"Dan Diner's breadth of knowledge, capacity for clear and broad interpretation, and stylistic sovereignty will no doubt make this a classic in the field."--Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
"A controversial but refreshingly un-Anglo-Saxon search for answers to some outsized questions."--Michael Cook, Princeton University
"Lost in the Sacred offers a broad synthesis on a key problem of the contemporary Middle East, hence of the world at large. It sets out to describe and account for a strange historical phenomenon: how is it that the Arab world so slowly changes--nay, came to some sort of a standstill? Diner handles the best sources and secondary literature with great skill and literary talent."--Rmi Brague, author of The Law of God
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Citations
- Foreword, 02/13/2009, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 12/01/2008, Page 40
