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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Contributors: Ṿaisman, Yitsḥaḳ 1961- (Editor) ; Sedgwick, Mark 1960- (Other) ; Mårtensson, Ulrika (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Farnham [u.a.] Ashgate 2014
In:Year: 2014
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Islam / Myth / Collective memory / Globalization
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Globalization Religious aspects Islam
B Islam Historiography
B Islamic sociology
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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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1472411498