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Orientalists, Islamists and the global public sphere [electronic resource] : a genealogy of the modern essentialist image of Islam / Dietrich Jung.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jung, Dietrich, 1959-
- Series:
- Comparative Islamic Studies
- Comparative Islamic studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orientalism--History.
- Orientalism.
- Islam--Public opinion.
- Islam.
- Islam--Relations.
- East and West.
- Middle East--Foreign public opinion, Western.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield ; Oakville, Conn. : Equinox Pub., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Putting its focus on the life and work of a number of paradigmatic individuals, the book investigates the intellectual encounters and discursive interdependencies among western and Muslim intellectuals. In a historical genealogy it deconstructs the essentialist image of Islam in uncovering its conceptual foundations in the modern transformation of European and Muslim societies from the nineteenth century onwards. Thereby, the changing infrastructure of the global public sphere has facilitated the gradual popularization, trivialization, and dissemination of a previously elitist discourse on Isl
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-78179-031-0
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