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Islam --- Islamic civilization --- Islamic countries --- Islamic countries.
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"No imaginário ocidental o harém primeiro fascina pelo mistério. Com efeito, a compreensão lendária das culturas do Médio Oriente incorpora uma visão de mulheres isoladas e restritas, à disposição da lascívia de seu senhor. E ainda que, em tempos mais recentes, estudos, relatos e ações tenham adentrado as questões postas pela condição feminina em países de cultura islâmica, contudo a imagem de sedução e dominação associada ao harém perdura com resiliência perturbadora. A historiadora Marina Soares procede a uma inovadora arqueologia desses conceitos, imagens e permanências. Ela percorre narrativas de viagens de europeus ao Império Otomano, Pérsia e Norte da África, publicadas em língua inglesa e francesa, remontando ao final do século XVI e prosseguindo até o final do século XVIII. Nesse cenário textual é possível seguir os rastros das representações do harém que ensejaram o imaginário de luxúria a compor a figuração das sociedades islâmicas. Dentre essas fontes cuidadosamente reunidas e analisadas, o último relato, publicado em 1791, destaca a experiência médica de um viajante inglês em dois haréns do Reino de Marrocos. Trata-se de documento privilegiado que permite recuperar nessa questão pontual o confronto das culturas: os pressupostos médicos europeus encontram as práticas médicas mouras – um encontro de perplexidades e trocas que a argúcia da investigadora traz à luz com fina maestria. O tema é muito pouco explorado pela pesquisa acadêmica sobre o Oriente, em geral mais voltada para estudos que, de alguma forma, possam instruir as questões políticas do presente. E, contudo, é na longa duração que a economia dos costumes enreda pacientemente o tecido da cultura – urdidura que dá sentido aos acontecimentos que convocam a atenção para as relações entre os povos. Este livro propicia o delicado desenlace dos atados mais profundos de nossa simbologia sobre o harém, um mistério desvelado como uma ficção instigante que nos convida a mirar em espelho nossas próprias quimeras."
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Incorporating a rich series of case-studies covering a range of geographical areas, this collection of essays examines the history of modern intellectuals in the Islamic world throughout the twentieth century. The contributors reassess the typology and history of various scholars, providing significant diachronic analysis of the different forms of communication, learning, and authority. While each chapter presents a separate regional case, with an historically and geographically different background, the volume discloses commonalities, similarities and intellectual echoes through its comparative approach. Consisting of two parts, the volume focuses first on al-Manar, the influential journal published between 1898 and 1935 that inspired much imagination and arguments among local intelligentsias all over the Islamic world. The second part discusses the formation, transmission and transformation of learning and authority, from the Middle East to Central and Southeast Asia. Constituting a milestone in comparative studies of the modern Islamic world, this book highlights the range of and transformation in the role of intellectuals in Islamic societies.
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Islamic architecture. --- Historic sites --- Islamic countries. --- Islamic countries.
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Islamic issues.
Islam --- Islam. --- Islamic countries --- Islamic countries. --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Muslim countries
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Are Islam and democracy on a collision course? Do Islamic movements seek to "hijack democracy?" How have governments in the Muslim world responded to the many challenges of Islam and democracy today? A global religious resurgence and calls for greater political participation have been major forces in the post-Cold War period. Across the Muslim world, governments and Islamic movements grapple with issues of democratization and civil society. Islam and Democracy explores the Islamic sources (beliefs and institutions) relevant to the current debate over greater political participation and democratization. Esposito and Voll use six case studies - Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Sudan - to look at the diversity of Muslim experiences and experiments. At one end of the spectrum, Iran and Sudan represent two cases of militant, revolutionary Islam establishing political systems. In Pakistan and Malaysia, however, the new movements have been recognized and made part of the political process. Egypt and Algeria reveal the coexistence of both extremist and moderate Islamic activism and demonstrate the complex challenges confronting ruling elites. These case studies prove that despite commonalities, differing national contexts and identities give rise to a multiplicity of agendas and strategies. This broad spectrum of case studies, reflecting the multifaceted relationship of Islam and Democracy, provides important insight into the powerful forces of religious resurgence and democratization which will inevitably impact global politics in the twenty first century.
Islamic Countries --- Democracy --- Social Science --- Political Science --- Islamic countries --- Social science --- Political science
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Islam and culture --- Islam and literature --- Islam --- History --- Islamic countries --- Islamic countries. --- Malaysia. --- Civilization
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