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Islam through Western eyes : from the crusades to the war on terrorism / Jonathan Lyons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lyons, Jonathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam--21st century.
- Islam.
- Islam--Public opinion.
- Islamophobia--Europe.
- Islamophobia.
- East and West.
- Islamic countries--Relations--Europe.
- Islamic countries.
- Europe--Relations--Islamic countries.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Despite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens to curb any prospect of East-West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the West has failed to engage in any meaningful or productive way with the world of Islam. Formulated in the medieval halls of the Roman Curia and courts of the European Crusaders and perfected in the newsrooms of Fox and CNN, this anti-Islamic discourse determines what can and cannot be said about Muslims and their religion,
- Contents:
- War without end?
- Foucault's toolbox
- The Western idea of Islam
- Islam and science
- Islam and violence
- Islam and women
- What's wrong with us?.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613792402
- 9781281881311
- 1281881317
- 9780231528146
- 0231528140
- OCLC:
- 826476563
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