About the Author. Charles Lindholm is a University Professor at Boston University , before which he taught anthropology at Barnard College and at Columbia and.
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Religious leaders can sometimes gain the population's consent, but once in office, engaged in quotidian, secular governance, they lose their sacred status and their support. Anyone who had read this book would have known that the "Arab Spring" would be short lived and not successfully transformative. Certainly this is one of the best books from which to learn about the Middle East.
One person found this helpful. This book is an anthropologist's perspective on the history of the Middle East and it places Islam in context with most of the other conditions that have shaped the past and present cultures of the tribes and ethnicities of the region. Evolution is at the heart of why the Bedouins, shepherds and farmers who became Sunni, Shi'ites and Sufis have values in common with others, such as American frontiersmen, who also survived to develop complex cultures in difficult environments.
LIndholm's book describes in significant detail, with the aid of numerous figures and a fascinating table of significant events why the Middle East is as it is.
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Return to Book Page. The Islamic Middle East: Tradition and Change by Charles Lindholm. Tradition and Change 3. The Islamic Middle East is a rare, thought-provoking account of the origins, nature, and evolution of Islam that provides a historical perspective vital to understanding the contemporary Middle East. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
To ask other readers questions about The Islamic Middle East , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The Islamic Middle East. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. In Chapter 15, The Ambiguities of Women , Lindholm argues that the inferior status of women in Islam is not based on its religious tenets, but stems from historical and cultural traditions. He provides background in a section titled, "Women in Middle Eastern Consciousness": In terms of popular attitudes, women are seen as "a separate human species that is naturally stupid, lazy, untrustworthy, polluting, obstinate, emotional, willful, talkative, greedy, and innately immoral" All inferior o In Chapter 15, The Ambiguities of Women , Lindholm argues that the inferior status of women in Islam is not based on its religious tenets, but stems from historical and cultural traditions.
All inferior or negative traits can be described as feminine. If men did not keep women under control the world would be destroyed.
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Women's inferiority is legally encoded. Men can obtain divorce easily, women not at all. A woman's testimony is worth half that of a man.