Islamic myths and memories: mediators of globalization
Islamic myth and memories facing the challenge of globalization / Itzchak Weismann, Mark Sedgwick and Ulrika Mårtensson -- Modern and Islamic icons in Arab-Islamic popular historical memory / Mark Sedgwick -- The Ottoman Empire as harmonious utopia: a historical myth and its function / Martin Riexin...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Farnham [u.a.]
Ashgate
2014
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| In: | Year: 2014 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ Myth
/ Collective memory
/ Globalization
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Globalization Religious aspects Islam B Islam Historiography B Islamic sociology |
| Summary: | Islamic myth and memories facing the challenge of globalization / Itzchak Weismann, Mark Sedgwick and Ulrika Mårtensson -- Modern and Islamic icons in Arab-Islamic popular historical memory / Mark Sedgwick -- The Ottoman Empire as harmonious utopia: a historical myth and its function / Martin Riexinger -- From a Red Guard to a jahrinya: a Chinese author's return to Islam / Xiaofei Tu -- Satan and the temptation of state power: medieval Islamic myth in global society / Ulrika Mårtensson -- The glocalization of al-Haram al-Sharif: designing memory, mystifying place / Nimrod Luz -- The myth of permanent departure: Sufis in a new (age) global (dis)order / Itzchak Weismann -- Shaykh Osama bin Laden: an evolving global myth / Anne Birgitta Nilsen -- The post-modern reconstitution of an Islamic memory: theory and practice in the case of Yusuf al-Qaradawi's virtual umma / Uriya Shavit -- The rating of Allah: the renaissance of preaching in the age of globalization / Shosh Ben-Ari -- The reception of Islamic prophet stories within Muslim communities in Norway and Germany / Gerd Marie Ådna |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XI, 263 S., Ill., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 1472411498 |