The contributors to this book document the existence of a religious
public sphere in premodern Muslim societies, one neither fixed in content or
boundaries, but fluctuating significantly over different historical periods.
The actors in these religious public spheres were not always united and the
boundaries of this sphere were often permeable, but it was set apart from the
sphere of royal authority and more diverse than a single household, extended
family, or kin group. In most Western contexts, religion has been formally
consigned to the private sphere. In Muslim majority societies, the boundary
between public and private is often more blurred than in Western societies and
rarely fixed. (From the Foreword, p. 7).
Miriam Hoexter, S. N. Eisenstadt, Nehemia Levtzion (eds). The Public
Sphere in Muslim Societies. State University of New York Press. 2002.
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