خلاصه ماشینی:
The author sets out to analyze Islam as lived and practiced in everyday life, and brings out the human dimension of a region and a religious tradition that largely have been stereotyped in the West.
Arguably, the greatest documentary value of the work is the analysis of the history and character of the Islamist movements in Egypt, Sudan, and Tunisia, as well as the problems that each of these countries continues to face in its attempts to reform family law.
The book sets out to make "accessible to a Western audience the lives of the everyday people of the Arab and Muslim worlds" (p.
The above methodological, factual, and transliteration problems cannot detract seriously from the value of Islamic Society in Practice.
The author has succeeded in dispelling some of the widely held misconceptions about Islam and Muslim-Arab societies.