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How did Muslims across time and place define the line between themselves and their neighbors? This book explores why the Prophet Muhammad first advised his followers to emulate Christians and Jews, but then allegedly reversed course, urging them to “Be different!” It details how subsequent generations of Muslim scholars canonized the Prophet’s admonition into an influential doctrine against imitation that enjoined ordinary believers to embody and display their religious difference in public life. Tracing this Islamic discourse from its origins in Arabia to Mamluk and Ottoman Damascus, colonial Egypt, and beyond, this sweeping intellectual and social history offers a panoramic view of Muslim identity, revealing unexpected intersections between religion and other markers of difference across ethnicity, gender, and status. Against conventional wisdom, the book contends that Muslim efforts to stand out from the crowd were not spectacular and oppositional, but carefully calibrated into small differences, which drew on a cultural ecosystem of symbols that paradoxically connected them to the cosmopolitan societies around them. It becomes evident that contemporary debates in the West over

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Author

Youshaa Patel

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300268935

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Islam, Law