Islam

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This paper compares two articles that examine Islam - "Mass Higher Education and the Religious Imagination in Contemporary Arab Societies" by Dale F. Eickelman and "Between Text and Practice: Considerations in the Anthropological Study of Islam" by Roland Lukens-Bull. The paper determines how the articles relate to each other with regard to the difficulty of trying to define "Islam".

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"The two works of literature suggest similar anthropological events with regard to the evolution of the body and nature of Islam but use different approaches to explain the meaning of their texts. While Eikelman portrays the evolutionary changes in the understanding and meaning of Islam through the increased rate of higher education among Muslims, Lukens points to social desire to explain the changes, however, when one takes social desire into consideration the fact that many more Muslims than ever before are receiving higher educations it will likely have a significant impact on what the social desires amount to and those are the driving forces behind changes in the faith of Islam."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Lukens-Bull Roland, "Between text and practice: considerations in the anthropological study of Islam".
• Dale F. Eickelman, "Mass Higher Education and the Religious Imagination in Contemporary Arab Societies". American Ethnologist, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 643-655.

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