The Crescent Obscured

Author : Robert J. Allison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226308579

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From the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the Middle East, encounters with the Muslim world have helped Americans define national identity and purpose. Focusing on America's encounter with the Barbary states of North Africa from 1776 to 1815, Robert Allison traces the perceptions and mis-perceptions of Islam in the American mind as the new nation constructed its ideology and system of government. "A powerful ending that explains how the experience with the Barbary states compelled many Americans to look inward . . . with increasing doubts about the institution of slavery." —David W. Lesch, Middle East Journal "Allison's incisive and informative account of the fledgling republic's encounter with the Muslim world is a revelation with a special pertinence to today's international scene." —Richard W. Bulliet, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "This book should be widely read. . . . Allison's study provides a context for understanding more recent developments, such as America's tendency to demonize figures like Iran's Khumaini, Libya's Qaddafi, and Iraq's Saddam." —Richard M. Eaton, Eighteenth Century Studies

Author : Robert J. Allison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : OCLC:638826148

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Author : Peter Gottschalk,Gabriel Greenberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0742552861

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Islamophobia by Peter Gottschalk,Gabriel Greenberg Pdf

In the spirit of Edward Said's Orientalism, this book graphically shows how political cartoons-the print medium with the most immediate impact-dramatically reveal Americans demonizing and demeaning Muslims and Islam. It also reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the Muslim world in general and issues a wake-up call to the American people.

Author : Pamela Berger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004203006

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The Crescent on the Temple by Pamela Berger Pdf

"The Crescent on the Temple" elucidates how the Dome of the Rock came to stand for the Temple of Solomon in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish art. That “Temple,” represented as the Muslim shrine, is often surmounted by a crescent.

Author : Peter Gottschalk,Gabriel Greenberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538107386

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Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment by Peter Gottschalk,Gabriel Greenberg Pdf

In the minds of many Americans, Islam is synonymous with the Middle East, Muslim men with violence, and Muslim women with oppression. A clash of civilizations appears to be increasingly manifest and the war on terror seems a struggle against Islam. These are all symptoms of Islamophobia. Meanwhile, the current surge in nativist bias reveals the racism of anti-Muslim sentiment. This book explores these anxieties through political cartoons and film––media with immediate and important impact. After providing a background on Islamic traditions and their history with America, it graphically shows how political cartoons and films reveal Americans’ casual demeaning and demonizing of Muslims and Islam––a phenomenon common among both liberals and conservatives. Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment offers both fascinating insights into our culture’s ways of “picturing the enemy” as Muslim, and ways of moving beyond antagonism.

Author : Lawrence A. Peskin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801891397

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Captives and Countrymen by Lawrence A. Peskin Pdf

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1 CAPTIVITY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE -- 1 Captivity and Communications -- 2 The Captives Write Home -- 3 Publicity and Secrecy -- PART 2 THE IMPACT OF CAPTIVITY AT HOME -- 4 Slavery at Home and Abroad -- 5 Captive Nation: Algiers and Independence -- 6 The Navy and the Call to Arms -- PART 3 CAPTIVITY AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE -- 7 Masculinity and Servility in Tripoli -- 8 Between Colony and Empire -- 9 Beyond Captivity: The Wars of 1812 -- Conclusion Captivity and Globalization -- Appendix: Lists of Letters from Captives -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X, Y, Z.

Author : Denise Spellberg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307388391

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Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an by Denise Spellberg Pdf

In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a drama in which Islam played a surprising role. In 1765, eleven years before composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson bought a Qur’an. This marked only the beginning of his lifelong interest in Islam, and he would go on to acquire numerous books on Middle Eastern languages, history, and travel, taking extensive notes on Islam as it relates to English common law. Jefferson sought to understand Islam notwithstanding his personal disdain for the faith, a sentiment prevalent among his Protestant contemporaries in England and America. But unlike most of them, by 1776 Jefferson could imagine Muslims as future citizens of his new country. Based on groundbreaking research, Spellberg compellingly recounts how a handful of the Founders, Jefferson foremost among them, drew upon Enlightenment ideas about the toleration of Muslims (then deemed the ultimate outsiders in Western society) to fashion out of what had been a purely speculative debate a practical foundation for governance in America. In this way, Muslims, who were not even known to exist in the colonies, became the imaginary outer limit for an unprecedented, uniquely American religious pluralism that would also encompass the actual despised minorities of Jews and Catholics. The rancorous public dispute concerning the inclusion of Muslims, for which principle Jefferson’s political foes would vilify him to the end of his life, thus became decisive in the Founders’ ultimate judgment not to establish a Protestant nation, as they might well have done. As popular suspicions about Islam persist and the numbers of American Muslim citizenry grow into the millions, Spellberg’s revelatory understanding of this radical notion of the Founders is more urgent than ever. Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an is a timely look at the ideals that existed at our country’s creation, and their fundamental implications for our present and future.

Author : Anouar Majid
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442214125

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Islam and America by Anouar Majid Pdf

is the enemy of future progress." --Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra University, author of Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation --

Author : Luca Codignola
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487504564

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Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic by Luca Codignola Pdf

Long before the mid-nineteenth century, thousands of people were frequently moving between North America - specifically, the United States and British North America - and Leghorn, Genoa, Naples, Rome, Sicily, Piedmont, Lombardy, Venice, and Trieste. Predominantly traders, sailors, transient workers, Catholic priests, and seminarians, this group relied on the exchange of goods across the Atlantic to solidify transatlantic relations; during this period, stories about the New World passed between travellers through word of mouth and letter writing. Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic challenges the idea that national origin - for instance, Italianness - constitutes the only significant feature of a group's identity, revealing instead the multifaceted personalities of the people involved in these exchanges.

Author : Frank Lambert
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374707279

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The Barbary Wars by Frank Lambert Pdf

The history of America's conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison; the adoption of the Constitution; the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812; the construction of a full-time professional navy; and, most important, the nation's haltering steps toward commercial independence. Frank Lambert's genius is to see in the Barbary Wars the ideal means of capturing the new nation's shaky emergence in the complex context of the Atlantic world. Depicting a time when Britain ruled the seas and France most of Europe, The Barbary Wars proves America's earliest conflict with the Arabic world was always a struggle for economic advantage rather than any clash of cultures or religions.

Author : Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Publisher : Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9782745162144

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Zad Al-Ma'ad - Provisions Of The Afterlife Which Lie Within Prophetic Guidance by Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Pdf

كتاب في السيرة النبوية يعتبر من أهم المراجع والكتب للدارسين والباحثين في هدي الرسول الكريم جمع فيه ابن قيم الجوزية هدي النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في كافة شئونه الخاصة والعامة بشكل واسلوب لم يسبق اليه أحد

Author : Fawaz A. Gerges
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521639573

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America and Political Islam by Fawaz A. Gerges Pdf

The origins and implications of American policy on political Islam.

Author : George C. Herring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190649241

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Years of Peril and Ambition by George C. Herring Pdf

Praised in the New York Times Book Review for its "Herculean power of synthesis," George C. Herring's 2008 From Colony to Superpower has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 is the first volume of a new split paperback edition of that masterwork, making this award-winning title accessible to those with a particular interest in the first half of the United States' history. This first volume of Herring's international narrative charts the rise of the United States from a loose grouping of British colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast of North America into an emerging world power at the end of World War I. It tells an epic story of restless settlers pushing against weak restraints; of explorers, sea captains, adventurers, merchants, and missionaries carrying American ways to new lands. It analyzes countless crises, some resulting in war and others resolved peacefully. Above all, it is the tale of United States' expansion, commercial and political, across the North American continent, into the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean regions, and, economically, worldwide. Herring brings this first segment of America's dramatic emergence as a superpower to a close with the United States' post-World War I rise to the status of the world's most powerful nation, poised -- however unsteadily --for global engagement in what would be called the American Century. Years of Peril and Ambition highlights the ongoing impact of the nation's international affairs on the household names of U.S. history but also on ordinary citizens. Featuring a grand cast of characters, encompassing statesmen and presidents, diplomats and foreigners, and rogues and rascals alike, this fast-paced account illuminates the central importance of foreign relations to the existence and survival of the nation.

Author : Paul A. Gilje
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0812237560

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Liberty on the Waterfront by Paul A. Gilje Pdf

"In its ambitious sweep and encyclopedic detail, Gilje's rendering of American maritime culture during the tumultuous century from 1750 to 1850 is unlikely to be surpassed."--"William and Mary Quarterly"

Author : Sarah J. Purcell
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781438108834

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The Early National Period by Sarah J. Purcell Pdf

Traces the history, events and people of post-Revolutionary War America through such primary sources as letters, speeches, and newspaper articles.