03982nam a2200673Ka 4500 ocn831625689 OCoLC 20200709055748.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 130325s2011 enk ob 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9781781790311 (electronic bk.) 1781790310 (electronic bk.) 9781845539009 1845539001 9781845538996 1845538994 (OCoLC)831625689 547859 (N$T) aw----- DS61.85 .J86 2011eb SOC 031000 bisacsh SOC 020000 bisacsh 305.6/97 22 LB 57000 rvk EL 7910 rvk N$TA Jung, Dietrich, 1959- Orientalists, Islamists and the global public sphere [electronic resource] : a genealogy of the modern essentialist image of Islam / Dietrich Jung. Sheffield, UK ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2011. 1 online resource (323 p.) Comparative Islamic studies Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-305) and index. In light of the ongoing public debate that focuses on differences between Islam and the West, this book suggests a change of perspective. It departs from the observation that both western Orientalists and Islamist activists have defined Islam similarly as an all-encompassing religious, political and social system. In shifting from differences to similarities, it leaves behind the increasingly circular debate about the true nature of Islam in which the Muslim religion has been represented either as intrinsically hostile to or as principally compatible with modern culture. Instead, it associates the evolution of a particularly essentialist image of Islam with a complex process of cross-cutting (self)-interpretations of Muslim and Western societies within an emerging global public sphere. Putting its focus on the life and work of a number of paradigmatic individuals, the book investigates the intellectual encounters and discursive interdependencies among western and Muslim intellectuals. In a historical genealogy it deconstructs the essentialist image of Islam in uncovering its conceptual foundations in the modern transformation of European and Muslim societies from the nineteenth century onwards. Thereby, the changing infrastructure of the global public sphere has facilitated the gradual popularization, trivialization, and dissemination of a previously elitist discourse on Islam and modernity. -- Book Cover. Description based on print version record. Orientalism History. Islam Public opinion. Middle East Foreign public opinion, Western. Islam Relations. East and West. Islam. (DE-588c)4027743-4 swd Orientalismus. (DE-588c)4252308-4 swd Orientbild. (DE-588c)4122305-6 swd Westliche Welt. (DE-588c)4079237-7 swd Islam. (DE-588)4027743-4 gnd Orientalismus. (DE-588)4252308-4 gnd Orientbild. (DE-588)4122305-6 gnd Westliche Welt. (DE-588)4079237-7 gnd SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Jung, Dietrich, 1959- Orientalists, Islamists and the global public sphere. Sheffield, UK ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2011 9781845539009 (DLC) 2010008981 (OCoLC)539086975 Comparative Islamic studies. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=547859 EBSCOhost EBSC 547859 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 52716 52716