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Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia, and the Internet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia, and the Internet

“A much-needed volume and a must read” for educators addressing a challenging topic in a challenging time (Choice). How can teachers introduce the subject of Islam when daily headlines and social-media disinformation can prejudice students’ perception of the subject? Should Islam be taught differently in secular universities than in colleges with a clear faith-based mission? What are strategies for discussing Islam and violence without perpetuating stereotypes? The contributors of Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia, and the Internet address these challenges head-on and consider approaches to Islamic studies pedagogy, Islamophobia, and violence, and suggestions fo...

Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia, and the Internet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia, and the Internet

How can teachers introduce Islam to students when daily media headlines can prejudice students' perception of the subject? Should Islam be taught differently in secular universities than in colleges with a clear faith-based mission? What are strategies for discussing Islam and violence without perpetuating stereotypes? The contributors of Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia, and the Internet address these challenges head-on and consider approaches to Islamic studies pedagogy, Islamaphobia and violence, and suggestions for how to structure courses. These approaches acknowledge the particular challenges faced when teaching a topic that students might initially fear or dis...

Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 685

Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara

In this innovative new history, Erin Pettigrew utilizes invisible forces and entities - esoteric knowledge and spirits - to show how these forms of knowledge and unseen forces have shaped social structures, religious norms, and political power in the Saharan West. Situating this ethnographic history in what became la Mauritanie under French colonial rule and, later the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Pettigrew traces the changing roles of Muslim spiritual mediators and their Islamic esoteric sciences - known locally as l'ḥjāb - over the long-term history of the region. By exploring the impact of the immaterial in the material world and demonstrating the importance of Islamic esoteric sciences in Saharan societies, she illuminates peoples' enduring reliance upon these sciences in their daily lives and argues for a new approach to historical research that takes the immaterial seriously.

Klage Südafrikas gegen den Staat Israel
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 478

Klage Südafrikas gegen den Staat Israel

Das besetzte palästinensische Territorium ist von besonderer Bedeutung für die Zukunft der Menschenrechte in der Welt. Die Menschenrechte in Palästina sind über sechzig Jahre auf der Tagesordnung der Vereinten Nationen gewesen und besonders in den letzten 40 Jahren seit der Besetzung von Ost-Jerusalem, der Westbank und des Gazastreifens im Jahr 1967. Über Jahre hinweg konkurrierte die Besatzung von Palästina und die Apartheid in Süd-Afrika um die Aufmerksamkeit der Internationalen Gemeinschaft. 1994 endete die Apartheid und Palästina verblieb als einziges Entwicklungsland in der Welt unter der Unterdrückung durch ein dem Westen verbundenes Regime. Hierin liegt seine Bedeutung für d...

On Earth Or in Poems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

On Earth Or in Poems

The idea of al-Andalus—medieval Muslim Iberia—has many uses, inspiring artists and activists who imagine a place and time of peaceful coexistence among Europeans, North Africans, and Middle Easterners; Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Eric Calderwood explores the consolidation of this reputation and its impact on artistic and political aspiration.

Disputed Archival Heritage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Disputed Archival Heritage

Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerging scholars in archival studies, Disputed Archival Heritage extends and enriches the conversation that started with the earlier volume, Displaced Archives. Advancing novel theories and methods for understanding disputes and claims over archives, the volume includes chapters that focus on Indigenous records in settler colonial states; literary and community archives; sub-national and private sector...

The Lost Library
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

The Lost Library

"The story of the first Jewish public library in Europe"--

Changing Heritage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

Changing Heritage

  • Categories: Art

Changing Heritage presents the most comprehensive analysis of heritage issues available today. Critically analysing the complexity of the current and forthcoming issues faced by heritage, it presents insightful directions for the future. Drawing on the author’s many years of experience working in senior positions at UNESCO, the book presents discussions of heritage sites all around the world. Today, our cultural and natural legacies face significant threats due to social and economic developments, political pressures, and unresolved historical issues. This book delves into these threats from two distinct perspectives: internal tensions and external pressures. The internal tensions include ...

Religion in Motion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Religion in Motion

This volume offers innovative approaches to the study of religion. It brings together junior and senior scholars from the Global North and South. The contributors also explore the context-specific formations of religion and religious knowledge production in an increasingly instable and incalculable, globalized world. In the spirit of the challenging slogan, “Religion in Motion. Rethinking Religion, Knowledge and Discourse in a Globalizing World,” the book bundles voices from a great variety of cultural and academic backgrounds. It offers readers a cross-continental exchange of innovative approaches in the study of religion. Coverage intersects religion, gender, economics, and politics. I...

Colonial al-Andalus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Colonial al-Andalus

Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain’s fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco’s side in the 1930s. What brought these strange bedfellows together, Eric Calderwood argues, was a highly effective propaganda weapon: the legacy of medieval Muslim Iberia, known as al-Andalus. This legacy served to justify Spain’s colonization of Morocco and also to define the Moroccan national culture that supplanted colonial rule. Writers of many political stripes have celebrated convivencia, the fabled “coexistence” of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in medieval ...