Europe And The Islamic World Egalley

Author : John Tolan,Henry Laurens,Gilles Veinstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691168579

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Europe and the Islamic World by John Tolan,Henry Laurens,Gilles Veinstein Pdf

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 : John Tolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1400899990

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Europe and the Islamic World (eGalley) by John Tolan Pdf

Author : Erik Jones,Saskia van Genugten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317207245

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Europe and Islam by Erik Jones,Saskia van Genugten Pdf

This book provides an in depth analysis of the challenging relationship between Europe and Islam. The general chapters on secularism, security, identity and solidarity show the challenge of promoting a stable multi-cultural society. In depth analysis of France, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands, and Italy reveal the extent to which this challenge of stable multiculturalism differs from one country to the next. The argument that emerges is not that Europe and Islam are incompatible. Rather it is that reconciling the tensions that arise from the mixing of different cultures will require enormous patience, understanding, and investment. The contributors represent some of the leading voices in debates about European politics – and not just those focusing narrowly on the question of Islam. Hence this volume offers both a gateway to understanding the special relationship between Europe and the Muslim world and a means of tying that understanding to the future of European integration. This book was previously published as a special issue of The International Spectator.

Author : Youssef Courbage,Emmanuel Todd
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231527460

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A Convergence of Civilizations by Youssef Courbage,Emmanuel Todd Pdf

We are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are heading towards inevitable conflict. The demographics of the West remain sluggish, while the population of the Muslim world explodes, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this issue, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement between these two civilizations, benefiting from a universal movement with roots in the Enlightenment. The historical and geographical sweep of this book discredits the notion of a specific Islamic demography. The range of fertility among Muslim women, for example, is as varied as religious behavior among Muslims in general. Whether agnostics, fundamentalist Salafis, or al-Qaeda activists, Muslims are a diverse group that prove the variety and individuality of Islam. Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd consider different degrees of literacy, patriarchy, and defensive reactions among minority Muslim populations, underscoring the spread of massive secularization throughout the Arab and Muslim world. In this regard, they argue, there is very little to distinguish the evolution of Islam from the history of Christianity, especially with Muslims now entering a global modernity. Sensitive to demographic variables and their reflection of personal and social truths, Courbage and Todd upend a dangerous meme: that we live in a fractured world close to crisis, struggling with an epidemic of closed cultures and minds made different by religion.

Author : Marshall G. S. Hodgson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521438446

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Rethinking World History by Marshall G. S. Hodgson Pdf

Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S. Hodgson challenges adherents of both Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the place of Europe in world history. He argues that the line that connects Ancient Greeks to the Renaissance to modern times is an optical illusion, and that a global and Asia-centred history can better locate the European experience in the shared histories of humanity. Hodgson then shifts the historical focus and in a parallel move seeks to locate the history of Islamic civilisation in a world historical framework. In so doing he concludes that there is but one history - global history - and that all partial or privileged accounts must necessarily be resituated in a world historical context. The book also includes an introduction by the editor, Edmund Burke, contextualising Hodgson's work in world history and Islamic history.

Author : H. A. Hellyer
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748642083

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Muslims of Europe by H. A. Hellyer Pdf

The interchange between Muslims and Europe has a long and complicated history, dating back to before the idea of 'Europe' was born, and the earliest years of Islam. There has been a Muslim presence on the European continent before, but never has it been so significant, particularly in Western Europe. With more Muslims in Europe than in many countries of the Muslim world, they have found themselves in the position of challenging what it means to be a European in a secular society of the 21st century. At the same time, the European context has caused many Muslims to re-think what is essential to them in religious terms in their new reality.In this work, H.A. Hellyer analyses the prospects for a European future where pluralism is accepted within unified societies, and the presence of a Muslim community that is of Europe, not simply in it.

Author : Christopher Caldwell
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307276759

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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe by Christopher Caldwell Pdf

In light of cultural crises such as the Danish cartoon controversy and the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, Christopher Caldwell’s incisive perspective has never been more timely or indispensible. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is destined to become the classic work on how Muslim immigration permanently reshaped the West. This provocative and unflinching analysis of Europe’s unexpected influx of immigrants investigates the increasingly prominent Muslim populations actively shaping the future of the continent. Muslims dominate or nearly dominate many important European cities, including Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Strasbourg and Marseille, the Paris suburbs and East London, and in those cities Islam has challenged the European way of life at every turn, becoming, in effect, an “adversary culture.” In Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Caldwell examines the anger of natives and newcomers alike. He exposes the strange ways in which welfare states interact with Third World customs, the anti-Americanism that brings European natives and Muslim newcomers together, and the arguments over women and sex that drive them apart. He considers the appeal of sharia, “resistance,” and jihad to a second generation that is more alienated from Europe than the first, and addresses a crisis of faith among native Europeans that leaves them with a weak hand as they confront the claims of newcomers.

Author : David Motadel
Publisher : Past and Present Book
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199668311

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Islam and the European Empires by David Motadel Pdf

A comparative account of the engagement of all major European empires with Islam in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, exploring an array of themes, ranging from the accommodation of Islam under imperial rule to Islamic anti-colonial resistance and contributing to our understanding of religion and power in the modern world.

Author : John L. Esposito,Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195165203

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The Islamic World by John L. Esposito,Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina Pdf

Alphabetically arranged entries provide a comprehensive overview of the fundamental principles, history, and influence of Islam.

Author : Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781849040631

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The Islamic World in the New Century by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu Pdf

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is the Muslim world's only intergovernmental body-the largest such system operating outside of the United Nations. This is the first history of the OIC.

Author : Francis Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0521669936

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The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World by Francis Robinson Pdf

Islamic peoples account for one fifth of the world's population and yet there is widespread misunderstanding in the West of what Islam really is. Francis Robinson and his team set out to address this, revealing the complex and sometimes contrary nature of Muslim culture. As well as taking on the issues uppermost in everyone's minds, such as the role of religious and political fundamentalism, they demonstrate the importance of commerce; literacy and learning; Islamic art; the effects of immigration, exodus, and conquest; and the roots of current crises in the Middle East, Bosnia, and the Gulf. Throughout, emphasis is placed on the interaction between Islam and the West, from the first Latin translations of the Quran to the fatwa on Salman Rushdie. This elegant book deliberately sets out to dismantle the Western impression of Islam as a monolithic world and replace it with a balanced view, from current issues of fundamentalism to its dynamic culture and art. Francis Robinson is the editor of two outstanding reference works: Atlas of the Islamic World Since 1500 (Cambridge, 1982) and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India (1989).

Author : Sarah Wolff
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472132539

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Secular Power Europe and Islam by Sarah Wolff Pdf

Reconsidering the European Union's secular identity

Author : H. T. Norris
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 0872499774

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Islam in the Balkans by H. T. Norris Pdf

From the earliest times, also, many Balkan Muslim soldiers and bureaucrats, as well as scholars and poets, made an impact on the wider Islamic world, the most prominent being Mohammed Ali, the founder of modern Egypt.

Author : Albert Hourani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521421209

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Islam in European Thought by Albert Hourani Pdf

Louis Massignon, H.A.R. Gibb, Marshall Hodgsons and T.E. Lawrence are discussed in a collection of essays that focuses on the relationship between European and Islamic thought and culture from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century.

Author : Bat Yeʼor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1611473144

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Eurabia by Bat Yeʼor Pdf

This book is about the transformation of Europe into "Eurabia", a cultural and political appendage of the Arab/Muslim world. Eurabia is fundamentally anti-Christian, anti-Western, anti-American, and antisemitic. The institution responsible for this transformation, and that continues to propagate its ideological message, is the Euro-Arab Dialogue, developed by European and Arab politicians and intellectuals over the past thirty years. 'This is a provocative and disturbing book. With all the drama of a master writer, Bat Ye'or presents a wide range of historical and contemporary documents and facts to tell the story of how the European Union is being subverted by Islamic hostility to the very ethics and values of Europe itself. Readers who seek a fair resolution of the Arab-Israel conflict will be shocked by the evidence produced in these pages of unfair pressures and deliberate distortions. Europe's independence of spirit is shown in the process of being undermined. This book challenges the current demonization of Israel and should be essential reading (and re-reading) for everyone interested in true peace in the Middle East. It is also a waring to Europe not to allow the anti-American and anti-Israel pressures of Islam to subvert Europe's true values: vibrant democracy, humanitarian free thinking, and social fair dealing.' Sir Martin Gilbert 'Bat Ye'or has traced a nearly secret history of Europe over the past thirty years, convincingly showing how the Euro-Arab Dialogue has blossomed from a minor discussion group into the engine for the continent's Islamization. In delineating this phenomenon, she also provides the intellectual resources with which to resist it. Will her message be listened to?' Daniel Pipes 'No writer has done more than Bat Ye'or to draw attention to the menacing character of Islamic extremism. Future historians will one day regard her coinage of the term 'Eurabia' as prophetic. Those who wish to live in a free society must be eternally vigilant. Bat Ye'or's vigilance is unrivalled.' N