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Author |
: Luca Mavelli |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 172 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0203125126 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780203125120 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Europe's Encounter with Islam by : Luca Mavelli
In the last few years, the Muslim presence in Europe has been increasingly perceived as OCyproblematicOCO. Events such as the French ban on headscarves in public schools, the publication of the so-called OCyDanish cartoonsOCO, and the speech of Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg have hit the front pages of newspapers the world over, and prompted a number of scholarly debates on MuslimsOCO capacity to comply with the seemingly neutral and pluralistic rules of European secularity. Luca Mavelli argues that this perspective has prevented an in-depth reflection on the limits of EuropeOCOs secular tradition and its role in EuropeOCOs conflictual encounter with Islam. Through an original reading of Michel FoucaultOCOs spiritual notion of knowledge and an engagement with key thinkers, from Thomas Aquinas to Jurg1/2n Habermas, Mavelli articulates a contending genealogy of European secularity. While not denying the latterOCOs achievements in terms of pluralism and autonomy, he suggests that EuropeOCOs secular tradition has also contributed to forms of isolation, which translate into EuropeOCOs incapacity to perceive its encounter with Islam as an opportunity rather than a threat. Drawing on this theoretical perspective, Mavelli offers a contending account of some of the most important recent controversies surrounding Islam in Europe and investigates the OCypostsecularOCO as a normative model to engage with the tensions at the heart of European secularity. Finally, he advances the possibility of a Europe willing to reconsider its established secular narratives which may identify in the encounter with Islam an opportunity to flourish and cultivate its democratic qualities and postnational commitments. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of religion and international relations, social and political theory, and Islam in Europe."
Author |
: Luca Mavelli |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2013-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136448430 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136448438 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Europe's Encounter with Islam by : Luca Mavelli
In the last few years, the Muslim presence in Europe has been increasingly perceived as ‘problematic’. Events such as the French ban on headscarves in public schools, the publication of the so-called ‘Danish cartoons’, and the speech of Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg have hit the front pages of newspapers the world over, and prompted a number of scholarly debates on Muslims’ capacity to comply with the seemingly neutral and pluralistic rules of European secularity. Luca Mavelli argues that this perspective has prevented an in-depth reflection on the limits of Europe’s secular tradition and its role in Europe’s conflictual encounter with Islam. Through an original reading of Michel Foucault’s spiritual notion of knowledge and an engagement with key thinkers, from Thomas Aquinas to Jurgën Habermas, Mavelli articulates a contending genealogy of European secularity. While not denying the latter’s achievements in terms of pluralism and autonomy, he suggests that Europe’s secular tradition has also contributed to forms of isolation, which translate into Europe’s incapacity to perceive its encounter with Islam as an opportunity rather than a threat. Drawing on this theoretical perspective, Mavelli offers a contending account of some of the most important recent controversies surrounding Islam in Europe and investigates the ‘postsecular’ as a normative model to engage with the tensions at the heart of European secularity. Finally, he advances the possibility of a Europe willing to reconsider its established secular narratives which may identify in the encounter with Islam an opportunity to flourish and cultivate its democratic qualities and postnational commitments. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of religion and international relations, social and political theory, and Islam in Europe.
Author |
: John Tolan |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 492 |
Release |
: 2015-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691168579 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691168571 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Europe and the Islamic World by : John Tolan
A sweeping history of Islam and the West from the seventh century to today Europe and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a "clash of civilizations" between the Muslim world and Europe. In this landmark book, three eminent historians bring to life the complex and tumultuous relations between Genoans and Tunisians, Alexandrians and the people of Constantinople, Catalans and Maghrebis—the myriad groups and individuals whose stories reflect the common cultural, intellectual, and religious heritage of Europe and Islam. Since the seventh century, when the armies of Constantinople and Medina fought for control of Syria and Palestine, there has been ongoing contact between the Muslim world and the West. This sweeping history vividly recounts the wars and the crusades, the alliances and diplomacy, commerce and the slave trade, technology transfers, and the intellectual and artistic exchanges. Here readers are given an unparalleled introduction to key periods and events, including the Muslim conquests, the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, the commercial revolution of the medieval Mediterranean, the intellectual and cultural achievements of Muslim Spain, the crusades and Spanish reconquest, the rise of the Ottomans and their conquest of a third of Europe, European colonization and decolonization, and the challenges and promise of this entwined legacy today. As provocative as it is groundbreaking, this book describes this shared history in all its richness and diversity, revealing how ongoing encounters between Europe and Islam have profoundly shaped both.
Author |
: David Levering Lewis |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 505 |
Release |
: 2009-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393067903 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393067904 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by : David Levering Lewis
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author, God’s Crucible brings to life “a furiously complex age” (New York Times Book Review). Resonating as profoundly today as when it was first published to widespread critical acclaim a decade ago, God’s Crucible is a bold portrait of Islamic Spain and the birth of modern Europe from one of our greatest historians. David Levering Lewis’s narrative, filled with accounts of some of the most epic battles in world history, reveals how cosmopolitan, Muslim al-Andalus flourished—a beacon of cooperation and tolerance—while proto-Europe floundered in opposition to Islam, making virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, religious intolerance, perpetual war, and slavery. This masterful history begins with the fall of the Persian and Roman empires, followed by the rise of the prophet Muhammad and five centuries of engagement between the Muslim imperium and an emerging Europe. Essential and urgent, God’s Crucible underscores the importance of these early, world-altering events whose influence remains as current as today’s headlines.
Author |
: Maurits Berger |
Publisher |
: Leiden University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9087281951 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789087281953 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Brief History of Islam in Europe by : Maurits Berger
A Brief History of Islam in Europe presents an overall presentation and discussion of developments ever since Islam appeared on the European stage thirteen centuries ago.
Author |
: Nicholas Morton |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 333 |
Release |
: 2016-07-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316721025 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316721027 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Encountering Islam on the First Crusade by : Nicholas Morton
The First Crusade (1095–9) has often been characterised as a head-to-head confrontation between the forces of Christianity and Islam. For many, it is the campaign that created a lasting rupture between these two faiths. Nevertheless, is such a characterisation borne out by the sources? Engagingly written and supported by a wealth of evidence, Encountering Islam on the First Crusade offers a major reinterpretation of the crusaders' attitudes towards the Arabic and Turkic peoples they encountered on their journey to Jerusalem. Nicholas Morton considers how they interpreted the new peoples, civilizations and landscapes they encountered; sights for which their former lives in Western Christendom had provided little preparation. Morton offers a varied picture of cross cultural relations, depicting the Near East as an arena in which multiple protagonists were pitted against each other. Some were fighting for supremacy, others for their religion, and many simply for survival.
Author |
: Pietro Rossi |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2015-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110420722 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110420724 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Boundaries of Europe by : Pietro Rossi
Europe’s boundaries have mainly been shaped by cultural, religious, and political conceptions rather than by geography. This volume of bilingual essays from renowned European scholars outlines the transformation of Europe’s boundaries from the fall of the ancient world to the age of decolonization, or the end of the explicit endeavor to “Europeanize” the world.From the decline of the Roman Empire to the polycentrism of today’s world, the essays span such aspects as the confrontation of Christian Europe with Islam and the changing role of the Mediterranean from “mare nostrum” to a frontier between nations. Scandinavia, eastern Europe and the Atlantic are also analyzed as boundaries in the context of exploration, migratory movements, cultural exchanges, and war. The Boundaries of Europe, edited by Pietro Rossi, is the first installment in the ALLEA book series Discourses on Intellectual Europe, which seeks to explore the question of an intrinsic or quintessential European identity in light of the rising skepticism towards Europe as an integrated cultural and intellectual region.
Author |
: Jack Goody |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 2013-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745657554 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745657559 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Islam in Europe by : Jack Goody
This vigorously argued book reveals the central role that Islam has played in European history. Following the movement of people, culture and religion from East to West, Goody breaks down the perceived opposition between Islam and Europe, showing Islam to be a part of Europe's past and present. In an historical analysis of religious warfare and forced migration, Goody examines our understanding of legitimate violence, ethnic cleansing and terrorism. His comparative perspective offers important and illuminating insights into current political problems and conflicts. Goody traces three routes of Islam into Europe, following the Arab through North Africa, Spain and Mediterranean Europe; the Turk through Greece and the Balkans; and the Mongol through Southern Russia to Poland and Lithuania. Each thrust made its mark on Europe in terms of population and culture. Yet this was not merely a military impact: especially in Spain, but elsewhere too, Europe was substantially modified by this contact. Today it takes the form of some eleven million immigrants, not to speak of the possible incorporation of further millions through Bosnia, Albania and Turkey.
Author |
: Akbar Ahmed |
Publisher |
: Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages |
: 595 |
Release |
: 2018-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780815727590 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0815727593 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Journey into Europe by : Akbar Ahmed
An unprecedented, richly, detailed, and clear-eyed exploration of Islam in European history and civilization Tensions over Islam were escalating in Europe even before 9/11. Since then, repeated episodes of terrorism together with the refugee crisis have dramatically increased the divide between the majority population and Muslim communities, pushing the debate well beyond concerns over language and female dress. Meanwhile, the parallel rise of right-wing, nationalist political parties throughout the continent, often espousing anti-Muslim rhetoric, has shaken the foundation of the European Union to its very core. Many Europeans see Islam as an alien, even barbaric force that threatens to overwhelm them and their societies. Muslims, by contrast, struggle to find a place in Europe in the face of increasing intolerance. In tandem, anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination cause many on the continent to feel unwelcome in their European homes. Akbar Ahmed, an internationally renowned Islamic scholar, traveled across Europe over the course of four years with his team of researchers and interviewed Muslims and non-Muslims from all walks of life to investigate questions of Islam, immigration, and identity. They spoke with some of Europe’s most prominent figures, including presidents and prime ministers, archbishops, chief rabbis, grand muftis, heads of right-wing parties, and everyday Europeans from a variety of backgrounds. Their findings reveal a story of the place of Islam in European history and civilization that is more interwoven and complex than the reader might imagine, while exposing both the misunderstandings and the opportunities for Europe and its Muslim communities to improve their relationship. Along with an analysis of what has gone wrong and why, this urgent study, the fourth in a quartet examining relations between the West and the Muslim world, features recommendations for promoting integration and pluralism in the twenty-first century.
Author |
: Bernard Lewis |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 2001-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393321654 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393321657 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Muslim Discovery of Europe by : Bernard Lewis
The author examines the sources and nature of Muslim knowledge of the West. He explores the subtle ways in which Europe and Islam have influenced each other over seven centuries.