Richard T. Antoun
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- Bachelors Anthropology Princeton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard T. "Dick" Antoun was a professor of anthropology at Binghamton University who specialized in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. His work centered on religion and the social organization of tradition in Islamic law and ethics, among other things. He was stabbed to death in his office at Binghamton University in December 2009; a Saudi graduate student pleaded guilty to killing him, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Richard T. Antoun's Published Works
Published Works
- The Society of the Muslim Brothers. (1970) (495)
- Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance (2001) (188)
- On the Modesty of Women in Arab Muslim Villages: A Study in the Accommodation of Traditions1 (1968) (141)
- CIVIL SOCIETY, TRIBAL PROCESS, AND CHANGE IN JORDAN: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL VIEW (2000) (83)
- Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements (2001) (66)
- Muslim Preacher in the Modern World: A Jordanian Case Study in Comparative Perspective (1989) (62)
- On the Significance of Names in an Arab Village (1968) (58)
- Arab Village: A Social Structural Study of a Transjordanian Peasant Community (1974) (42)
- Rural politics and social change in the Middle East (1972) (36)
- The Islamic Court, the Islamic Judge, and the Accommodation of Traditions: A Jordanian Case Study (1980) (31)
- FUNDAMENTALISM, BUREAUCRATIZATION, AND THE STATE'S CO-OPTATION OF RELIGION: A JORDANIAN CASE STUDY (2006) (25)
- Religion and politics in the modern world (1984) (17)
- Documenting Transnational Migration: Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America (2005) (13)
- Social Organization and the Life Cycle in an Arab Village1 (1967) (10)
- Syria : society, culture, and polity (1991) (10)
- Conservatism and Change in the Village Community: A Jordanian Case Study (1965) (7)
- THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF RAMADĀN IN AN ARAB VILLAGE (1968) (7)
- Themes and Symbols in the Religious Lesson: A Jordanian Case Study (1993) (6)
- :Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation (2007) (6)
- From Heroes to Celebrities to Moneyball: The Life Cycle of Professional Male Star Athletes Adjusting to Shifting Forms of Competition and Changing Political and Cultural Economies 1 (2011) (4)
- Social/Cultural Anthropology: Arab Women in the Field: Studying Your Own Society. Soraya Altorki and Camillia Fawzi El-Solh, eds (1989) (3)
- The Great Divide: The Failure of Islam and the Triumph of the West. By Alvin J. Schmidt. Boston, Mass.: Regina Orthodox Press, 2004. 332pp. $19.95 (2005) (2)
- Antoun's Reply to Abu‐Zahra (1970) (2)
- Low-key politics : local-level leadership & change in the Middle East (1979) (2)
- The Gentry of a Traditional Peasant Community Undergoing Rapid Technological Change: An Iranian Case Study (1976) (2)
- Patrick D. Gaffney, The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994). Pp. 375. (1996) (1)
- Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance (review) (2001) (1)
- The Case of the Lost Tooth (2003) (1)
- Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women. Edited by Courtney W. Rowland. New York: Palgrave Publishers, 2001. 326 pp. $24.95 paper (2002) (0)
- Justice, and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation. By Naim Stifan Ateek. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1989. 299 pp. $18.95 cloth; $9.95 paper (1990) (0)
- Fuad I. Khuri, From Village to Suburb: Order and Change in Greater Beirut (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975). Pp. 272. $19.50. (1976) (0)
- SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society. Brinkley Messick (1994) (0)
- Three Approaches to the Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East (1971) (0)
- Alumni and ʿulama in Bahrain (2007) (0)
- Key to Transliteration of Arabic Letters and Symbols (1989) (0)
- 7. Religion and Politics: "Parties" (Ahzab), Processes, and the Complicated Relationship between "People's Religion" and "Government Religion" (1989) (0)
- A REPLY TO JONATHAN BENTHALL (2001) (0)
- Christians and Jews under Islam. By Youssef Courbage and Phillipe Fargues. New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1997. 242 pp. $59.50 (1999) (0)
- The Arab rich (2007) (0)
- Studying anthropology in Oregon (2007) (0)
- Teaching in Beirut (2007) (0)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Social Stratification and the Middle East. C. A. O. van Nieuwenhuijze (1967) (0)
- Ethnology: Kafr El-Elow: An Egyptian Village in Transition. HANI FAKHOURI (1974) (0)
- 2. Islam in Its Local Environment: The Village, Its Constituent Units, and the Peasant Predicament (1989) (0)
- Establishing an Arab association for the social sciences (2007) (0)
- Ethnology: An Inquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan. H. W. BELLOW: Ethnology: The Way of the Pathans. JAMES W. SPAIN (1975) (0)
- 1. The Social Organization of Tradition (1989) (0)
- Social/Cultural Anthropology: Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Lila Abu-Lughod. (1987) (0)
- 9. Islamization, Islamic Fundamentalism, Islamic Resurgence, and the Reinterpretation of Tradition in the Modern World (1989) (0)
- Book Reviews: Religion & Politics (2012) (0)
- 8. The Interpretation of Islam by Muslim Preachers in the Modern World: Five Views of the Prophet's Night Journey and Ascent (1989) (0)
- John Guiick, The Middle East: An Anthropological Perspective (Pacific Palisades, California: Goodyear Publishing Company, 1976). Pp. 244 + xv. Bibliography, index, map. (1977) (0)
- Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature. By David Cook. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2005. 272 pp. $34.95 (2006) (0)
- 5. The Islamic Sermon (Khutba), The Islamic Preacher (Khatib), and Modernity (1989) (0)
- Lebanese traders in West Africa (2007) (0)
- 3. The Role of the Preacher, the Content of the Sermon: The Case of Luqman (1989) (0)
- Living in Great Britain (2007) (0)
- The official policy toward emigration in Lebanon (2007) (0)
- Continuity and Change in Social Organization: Arab Border-Villages in Israel . Abner Cohen. Humanities Press, New York; Manchester University Press, Manchester, England, 1965. xiv + 194 pp. Illus. $6. (1965) (0)
- Arab Border-Villages in Israel. Abner Cohen. Humanities Press, New York; Manchester University Press, Manchester, England, 1965. xiv + 194 pp. Illus. $6 (1965) (0)
- Books received (1994) (0)
- Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1990) (0)
- 4. The Rhetoric of Religion: An Analysis of Rahm (Womb, Kinship, Compassion) (1989) (0)
- Norman N. Lewis, Nomads and Settlers in Syria and Jordan, 1800–1980 , Cambridge Middle East Library (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. 266. (1989) (0)
- Table manners in Yemen (2007) (0)
- Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition, Michael M. J. Fischer and Mehdi Abedi, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990, xxxvi + 564 pp., cloth $49.75, paper $23.50. (1991) (0)
- The complexity of the lower stratum: sharecroppers and wage‐laborers in an Iranian village (1981) (0)
- 6. Islamic Ritual and Modernity: The Pilgrimage (Hajj) Interpreted (1989) (0)
- Change as faith (2007) (0)
- Richard Antoun e Iliya Harik (eds.). Rural politics and social change in the Middle East. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 1972 (1974) (0)
- Presidential Address—MESA 1983: Our Rôles as Scholars and Citizens (1984) (0)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Rites of Birth, Marriage, Death and Kindred Occasions Among the Semites. Julian Morgenstern (1967) (0)
- Books received (2004) (0)
- News of Members (1973) (0)
- Book Reviews (2009) (0)
- The Exotic in the Suburbs of Beirut (2007) (0)
- Who wants to be a Zaʿīm (2007) (0)
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