Akbar Ahmed, Toward Islamic Anthropology: Definition, Dogma, and Directions

This book, Toward Islamic Anthropology: Definition, Dogma and Direction, is a valuable prerequisite for the study and assessment of Western anthropology from a universal or Islamic perspective. Dr. Akbar Ahmed, author of this work, contends that Western anthropology offers the Islamic scholar a body of knowledge worthy of merit, but which is, unfortunately, laden with conclusions based on cultural presumptions, misinformation and ethnocentricism.