The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism

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Cambridge University Press, 3. jul. 2006 - 309 sider
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In this cultural history of Americans' engagement with Islam in the colonial and antebellum period, Timothy Marr analyzes the historical roots of how the Muslim world figured in American prophecy, politics, reform, fiction, art and dress. Marr argues that perceptions of the Muslim world, long viewed not only as both an anti-Christian and despotic threat but also as an exotic other, held a larger place in domestic American concerns than previously thought. Historical, literary, and imagined encounters with Muslim history and practices provided a backdrop where different Americans oriented the direction of their national project, the morality of the social institutions, and the contours of their romantic imaginations. This history sits as an important background to help understand present conflicts between the Muslim world and the United States.
 

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Islamicism and Counterdespotism in Early
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this services with an ambassadorship in Spain Tobias Lear the
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on local politics as did the letters of Mehemet and
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promoted their community as a new type of Israel committed
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of the New Testament in Hindi and Persian Martyn provided
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Antebellum Islamicism and the Transnational
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religious group indeed that was a major part of
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By locating the remote mountainous lands between the Caspian and
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pun alack as a lack to free and opulent expansiveness
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The Gendered Pageantry of
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very impersonation of muscular strength67 The editor wondered whether
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The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism
Timothy Marr
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Timothy Marr is Assistant Professor in the Curriculum in American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where he teaches seminars on such topics as cultural memory, captivity, tobacco, birth and death, and mating and marriage. He became interested in the subject of this book while teaching Herman Melville's Moby-Dick at Lahore American School in Pakistan in the late 1980s. He is the co-editor of Ungraspable Phantom: Essays on Moby-Dick.

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TitelThe Cultural Roots of American Islamicism
ForfatterTimothy Marr
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UdgiverCambridge University Press, 2006
ISBN0521852935, 9780521852937
Længde309 sider
  
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