|
|
Eickelman has been conducting ethnographic field research in the Middle East, particularly North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, since 1968. The titles of his books reveal his continuing interest in the relation between religion and politics in the Muslim world, the role of intellectuals in society, education, media, and communications, and ideas of knowledge. His first book was Moroccan Islam (University of Texas Press, 1976). Its translation into Arabic in 1988 meant that that his work became more accessible the people he writes about. It was followed in 1981 by a more general book now called The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach, 4th ed. (Prentice Hall, 2002), also available in Japanese, Italian, and Spanish. Knowledge and Power in Morocco (Princeton University Press, 1985), appeared in Arabic in 2000, and was followed by Muslim Politics, co-authored with James Piscatori (Princeton University Press, 1996), and an Indonesian translation a year later.
|
