Islam in the Eyes of the West by Ismael, Tareq Y. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series Contents Contributors Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The present context Cultural representations of the ‘Other’ The historical context Overview of the book Notes

1 The origin of difference

Discourse theory and the “real Orient” Islamist ideologies as a form of “Orientalism in reverse” Ernest Renan, European Orientalism and Islamic reform Conclusion: from Islamic reform to Islamist revolution Notes

2 Demonizing the enemy in the War on Terror

The infantilism of the War on Terror Gratuitous evil God bless America Conclusion Notes

3 Islam and Muslims as seen by the Christian Zionists

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4 Vigilante masculinity and the ‘War on Terror’

Introduction Popular cultural masculinities Vigilantism: a ‘new’ masculinity for the ‘new’ Islamic threat Vulnerable men, insecure masculinity Conclusion: winning a lost war? Acknowledgments Notes

5 Islam in the US

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6 ‘Jihadiology’ and the problem of reaching a contemporary understanding of Jihad

Populist Jihadiology Jihadiology in US legal documents Jihadiolgy in academia: Understanding Jihad

Muslim conquests and Jihad Greater and lesser jihad Contemporary theory of jihad

Jihad and jihadism

In search of a modern doctrine of jihad The politics of Jihadism

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7 Islam, Muslims, neighbors in Asia?

Muslims as regional neighbors of Japan

Conclusion Notes

8 U.S. politics, media and Muslims in the post-9/11 era

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9 Self and Other in a time of terror

Competing discourses on the meanings of violence Self and Other The naming of violence The Muslim as violent Other Keeping the Self pure Conclusion Notes

10 Understanding the Muslim world

Introduction Translation as a problem for relativism Interpreting other cultures

Commitment and entitlement Acknowledgment and consequence Anaphora Grasping the unfamiliar Interpreting behavior we object to Interpreting terrorism

Explaining culture in terms of interpretation

Scorekeeping and cultural integrity Determining the future by arguing about the past Contingency and cultural change Islam as a culture

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11 Applying “the McCarthy Test” to Canadian and American security legislation

C-55: The Public Safety Act Conclusions: Lessons for and from Canada Anti-terrorism legislation: US lessons and questions Conclusion Notes

12 Huntington’s “clash of civilizations”

Some typical rumours No end to history Not simply a matter of mutual ethnocentrism No claim that Islam is inherently hostile or bloody Supporting Islamic power Opposing interventionism and Western or American hegemony Opposing Kemalism, supporting cultural authenticity Not a Western chauvinist Why the negative reaction?

Several Huntingtons? Equal but separate civilisations Huntington’s past reputation: authoritarianism Huntington, the conservative anti-Neocon Association with the Vietnam War Confusion with Bernard Lewis’s “Clash of Civilizations” A mapmaker, not necessarily an oversimplifi er

Conclusion Notes

13 Getting it wrong yet again

Acknowledgments Notes

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