The cultural roots of American Islamicism / Timothy Marr.
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Marr, Timothy, 1960- (författare)
- ISBN 0521852935
- Publicerad: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2006
- Engelska xii, 309 p.
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- Imagining Ishmael : introducing American Islamicism -- 1. Islamicism and counterdespotism in early national cultural expression -- 2. "Drying up the Euphrates" : Muslims, millennialism, and early American missionary enterprise -- 3. Antebellum Islamicism and the transnational crusade of antislavery and temperance reform -- 4. "Turkey is in our midst" : Mormonism as an American "Islam" -- 5. American Ishmael : Herman Melville's literary Islamicism -- 6. Turning Turk : the gendered pageantry of mid-nineteenth-century Islamicism.
- "The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism explores the heritage of how Americans have long pressed orientalist images of Islam into service to globalize the authority of domestic cultural power. By delving deeply into rich and interdisciplinary archives of expression from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, the book examines how Muslim history and practices provided a contentious global horizon that Americans engaged to orient the direction of their national project, the morality of their social institutions, and the contours of their romantic imaginations. Early Americans first viewed the Islamic world as an antichristian and despotic threat but progressively revised these images into a resource for fashioning more comparative and cosmopolitan alternatives. Readers will better understand how long-held habits of intercultural perception have shaped present impasses between the United States and the Muslim world."--BOOK JACKET.
Ämnesord
- Islam -- Public opinion -- History. (LCSH)
- Orientalism -- United States -- History. (LCSH)
- Public opinion -- United States -- History. (LCSH)
- Islam and politics -- United States -- History. (LCSH)
- Religion and sociology -- United States -- History. (LCSH)
- Islam och politik -- historia (sao)
- Allmänna opinionen -- historia (sao)
- Internationella relationer -- historia (sao)
- Islamiska länder (sao)
- Förenta staterna (sao)
- United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865. (LCSH)
- Islamic countries -- Foreign public opinion, American. (LCSH)
- Islamic countries -- Relations -- United States. (LCSH)
- United States -- Relations -- Islamic countries. (LCSH)
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865. (LCSH)
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- E164 (LCC)
- E164 (LCC)
- 909.09767 (DDC)
- N (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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