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Islamic myths and memories : mediators of globalization / edited by Itzchak Weismann, Mark Sedgwick, Ulrika Mårtensson. - xi, 263 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography: [233]-255.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Islamic myth and memories facing the challenge of globalization / Itzchak Weismann, Mark Sedgwick and Ulrika Mårtensson -- Modern and Islamic icons in Arab-Islamic popular historical memory / Mark Sedgwick -- The Ottoman Empire as harmonious utopia: a historical myth and its function / Martin Riexinger -- From a Red Guard to a jahrinya: a Chinese author's return to Islam / Xiaofei Tu -- Satan and the temptation of state power: medieval Islamic myth in global society / Ulrika Mårtensson -- The glocalization of al-Haram al-Sharif: designing memory, mystifying place / Nimrod Luz -- The myth of permanent departure: Sufis in a new (age) global (dis)order / Itzchak Weismann -- Shaykh Osama bin Laden: an evolving global myth / Anne Birgitta Nilsen -- The post-modern reconstitution of an Islamic memory: theory and practice in the case of Yusuf al-Qaradawi's virtual umma / Uriya Shavit -- The rating of Allah: the renaissance of preaching in the age of globalization / Shosh Ben-Ari -- The reception of Islamic prophet stories within Muslim communities in Norway and Germany / Gerd Marie Ådna.

9781472411495 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2013051040


Globalization--Religious aspects--Islam.
Islam--Historiography.
Islamic sociology.

BP190.5.G56 / I85 2014

297.27 / ISL
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