Orientalists, Islamists, and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of IslamJung (contemporary Middle East studies, U. of Southern Denmark) investigates why so many Muslims and non Muslims continue to represent Islam in the holistic terms of an all encompassing socio religious system despite all empirical evidence to the contrary. He discusses the essentialist image of Islam; Edward Said's Orientalism and his critics; observing multiple modernities; modern Europe between positivism and Christian apology; the formation of

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Publisher: Prolance

Includes important additions about the prophet’s spread of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states

but in fact demands it

Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research

and fellow and tutor in Oriental Studies at Mansfield College

has led to discussions of jihad and martyrdom as concepts with fixed

as well as the Hajj pilgrimage

this volume offers a strikingly human portrayal of Islamic perspectives on day-to-day existence

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ISBN-10: 0860375617

This multiple award-winning