Purportedly objective, “etic” examinations of Islam routinely struggle to advance a compelling method of analyzing the faith and its adherents, without essentializing them. This challenge defined much of the early Orientalist literature on Islam, which was rife with stereotypes about Muslim belief and behavior, and underscored the fundamental limitations of examining the religion as an […]
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