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ajiss-2137	Ezzat, Heba Raouf	The Pure and Powerful: Studies in Contemporary Muslim Society by Nadia Abu-Zahra. lthaca Press, 1997, 320 pp.	1999.0	6	.pdf	application/pdf	2511	74	41	The connection people make between their practices and Islamic traditions is crucial for the study of how Islam is variously integrated and practiced in different societies. First, she goes on to demon- strate how the performance of a certain set of Islamic rituals dovetails Islamic prescriptions with social traditions, therevy showing how an analysis which would separate the two would result in a distortion of social realities and obscure any real understanding of Muslim society.	cache/ajiss-2137.pdf	txt/ajiss-2137.txt