Narrating Islam
Interpretations of the Muslim World in European Texts
Published on 18. December 2009
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-84511-978-2 (ISBN)
Description
Mapping the diverse images of Islam and Muslims in educational texts as reproduced in national contexts across Europe and neighbouring regions, "Narrating Islam" explores both historical perceptions and contemporary representations of Islam and Muslims as projected through instructional media. Based on interdisciplinary research, it seeks to excavate the layered images of Muslims and Islam which have been historically embedded in semantic reservoirs and which feed into the modern scripting of the 'other' in a global context. "Narrating Islam" offers a framework to critically discuss European identity through interrogating how pedagogical discourses negotiate the Muslim presence in and around Europe.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
11 integrated bw
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84511-978-2 (9781845119782)
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Gerdien Jonker | Shiraz Thobani
Narrating Islam
Interpretations of the Muslim World in European Texts
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12/2009
I.B. Tauris
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Persons
Gerdien Jonker is affiliated with the Georg-Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, Germany Shiraz Thobani is a Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.
Content
Table of contents:
Part 1: Historical Perceptions
1. The Longue Dur?e of the Islam Narrative: Genesis and Change in Central European Textbooks
2. History and Caricature: An Approach to Medieval Iberian History Through Textbooks
3. Who Were the 'Others' at Poitiers? Medieval History and Intercultural Didactics
4. The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire: European Perspectives at the Start of the EWG
5. The Image of Muslims and Tartars in Local (Tartarstan) and Federal (Russian) History Textbooks
Part 2: Contemporary Representations
6. Peripheral Vision in the National Narrative: Muslim History in British Textbooks
7. A Gender-Based Reading of the Iconography of Islam in French, Italian and German Textbooks
8. Representation of Islam and Muslim Albanians in the Albanian Secondary Education HIstory Textbooks
9. The Image of Europe in Moroccan History Textbooks
Part 1: Historical Perceptions
1. The Longue Dur?e of the Islam Narrative: Genesis and Change in Central European Textbooks
2. History and Caricature: An Approach to Medieval Iberian History Through Textbooks
3. Who Were the 'Others' at Poitiers? Medieval History and Intercultural Didactics
4. The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire: European Perspectives at the Start of the EWG
5. The Image of Muslims and Tartars in Local (Tartarstan) and Federal (Russian) History Textbooks
Part 2: Contemporary Representations
6. Peripheral Vision in the National Narrative: Muslim History in British Textbooks
7. A Gender-Based Reading of the Iconography of Islam in French, Italian and German Textbooks
8. Representation of Islam and Muslim Albanians in the Albanian Secondary Education HIstory Textbooks
9. The Image of Europe in Moroccan History Textbooks