Lost in the Sacred: Why the Muslim World Stood Still

by Dan Diner (Author), Dan Diner (Author), Steven Rendall (Translator)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $28.56

  Argues that Islam's cultural stasis is not due to the Muslim faith itself, but to the nature of the sacred it is infused with and that penetrates every aspect of life - spiritual and material. This book shows how the sacred in Islam suspends the acceleration of social time, hinders change, and circumvents secularization and modernity.