Confessional cousins and the rest: The structure of Islamic toleration |
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| Authors: | JONATHAN BENTHALL |
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| Institution: | Jonathan Benthall co-published The charitable crescent: Politics of aid in the Muslim world;(I.B. Tauris)with Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan in 2003, and is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London. His email is |
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| Abstract: | This article is an expanded version of a paper given on 22 November 2003 in a session of the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings in Chicago, organized by Vinson Sutlive in honour of George and Laura Appell, entitled 'Human rights and cultural preservation in the interest of peace'. I am grateful to the RAI for inviting me to represent it at the AAA meeting, to Jean La Fontaine for her comments on an earlier draft, and to a number of extremely helpful anonymous referees. - 1.
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