L'islam autentico nella storia : ideologie ortodosse, islam politico e antropologia religiosa
101-122 p.
In classical books in anthropology of islam the categories of «great and little traditions» set up a dichotomy between an orthodox, official, scripturalist, puritanical, urban islam and an heterodox, popular, oral, saintworshiping, ritualistic, tribal Islam. This essentializing theory, criticized in Islamic studies, lasted for a long time in anthropology for multiple reasons: failed dialogue with religious (and islamic) studies, ethnocentrism, political circumstances. The 'invention' of an 'authentic orthodox islam' seems to be a recurrent pattern in history, functional to serve ideologies and interests of different subjects: islamic dominant élites, colonizers, islamists (moderate and radicals) and, finally, scholars apologists of islam after 11/9. [Publisher's text].
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Società degli individui : 65, 2, 2019-
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Codice DOI: 10.3280/LAS2019-065007
ISSN: 1972-5752
PAROLE CHIAVE
- Anthropology of islam, islamic studies, religious studies, orthodoxy, sufism