... in the ‘sous-mission’ to the loss of France’s standing as Empire, and its farcical conversion to Islam by means of a sham Napoleon. Rather than a symbol of alterity or a tapestry of decadent exoticism, Houellebecq’s caricatured version of Islam becomes a means to attain the same bourgeois comforts...

... the reappraisal of the Talmudic attitudes and rules. First, there was the question of whether Christianity and Islam were to be considered idolatrous faiths, since both were obviously closer to Judaism than any of the pagan religions were. A further problem that arose, and became very acute, was the halakhic...

...This chapter analyses the characteristics of the ‘axial civilizations’ or those civilizations that crystallized during the time from 500 bc to the advent of Islam in the seventh century ad. It then outlines some of the major similarities and differences between them and how...

... alienation assimilation cultural identity immigrants Edwin Shirin ethnic identity immigrants French culture–immigrant culture host culture immigrants Islamic code marginalization Muslims belonging “borderland conflict” in betweenness “borderland conflict” legal systems marriage value systems...

...This chapter reviews the problems inherent in the usual modes of knowing Islam — theological, sociological, post–colonial — and argues for a dynamic, interactive understanding of the bond that Islam forms between the religious and the political. It is in the encounter between Islam and the Internet...

... understood. Successive sections then consider obelisks in the ancient world, how understanding of them and their perceived value changed with the introduction of first Christianity and then Islam and the loss of their original functions, the growing influence of European powers in Egypt with the decline...

... in which Islam and Muslims have been depicted in several key editions of Charlie Hebdo over the last decade and a half, and also analysing a court case brought against the publication by French Muslim groups. show that French Republicanism has become a contested terrain when it comes...

... Djebar Assia Reeck Matt decolonial Fieni David Islamic Portuguese Rosello Mireille transnationalism Khatibi postcolonialism decolonisation transnationalism transcolonial aesthetics sociology Islam Maghreb Morocco travel stranger art sign literature philosophy translation...

... cosmopolitanism Khatibi postcolonialism decolonisation transnationalism transcolonial aesthetics sociology Islam Maghreb Morocco travel stranger art sign literature philosophy translation bilingualism Mediterranean language performativity Palestine alterity Derrida Hassoun Segalen...

... Kabbala Mesopotamia Renaissance Spain Sufism Tao the Vedas memory music Newton Isaac Oulipo philosophy poetry Surrealism Borges Jorge Luis Duvignaud Jean French Islamic Moroccan mother tongue Spanish the West Arabic authorship body Greek pensée vide wandering hospitality Paris...

...This chapter studies the cultural encounter between Israel and Ishmael, how it has played a powerful role in shaping Judaism, and how it led the medieval rabbis and Jewish thinkers to oscillate between rejection and reception of Islam. Much of this dialectical attitude is played out through...

... and opinions towards Muslims and Islam. However, religious discrimination should not be viewed simply as a prejudice linked to but ultimately different from racism. Instead, anti-Muslim sentiments must also be seen as themselves racist and central to any definition of contemporary racism. The connection...

...A detailed investigation of ‘Ibadhiyyah and power is the focus this Chapter, whose primary objective is to explore Al Sa‘id rule before 1970, precisely to clarify the role that Islam played in Oman. While ‘Ibadhism is discussed from both a religious as well as political angles...

...This chapter argues that Islam not only features specific rules of conduct and a set of ritual obligations, but also a stock of basic values, or principles, that guide the social and political life of Muslims. These values or principles include justice, freedom, equality, responsibility...

...Chapter Three examines novels which depict women’s experiences of menstruation, childbirth and the menopause in an Algerian context. This chapter argues that representations of the female body in Algerian women’s writing are primarily inflected by Islamic practices, doctrine and traditions...

... of films present in representing first-generation women? To what extent is the question of Islam raised, and can it be said that this shapes the representations of Maghrebi women in a particular way? The introduction concludes with a description the fieldwork undertaken to construct the study’s cinematic...

...This chapter examines the notion of a religious bond between human beings. The increasing presence of Islam in Europe poses the question of the transformation of a space that is actively insisting on its secular self–definition by its inclusion or rejection of the religious bond. Two case studies...

.... Second, the novel bears the unequivocal stamp of the Black Arts Movement through its use of two icons, Nina Simone and the Nation of Islam. While ending patriarchy remains a challenge, the novel brilliantly calls into question an exclusive focus on gay liberation that does not address the specificity...

...This chapter considers the impact of the reforms that sought to establish equality on the law for both Muslim and non-Muslim in Syrian society. It looks at the Islamic social world-view, particularly the principle of inequality before the law that shaped its treatment of religious minorities...