Orientalists, Islamists, and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam Interactive Learning Many assumptions about the military

Many assumptions about the military jihad and martyrdom in Islam are thereby challenged and deconstructed

to their survival

or the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad

Publisher: Turath Publishing

It has meanings and relevance to both Muslim and non-Muslim readers

Orientalists, Islamists, and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam Interactive Learning Many assumptions about the militaryJung (contemporary Middle East studies, U. of Southern Denmark) investigates why so many Muslims and non Muslims continue to represent Islam in the holistic terms of an all encompassing socio religious system despite all empirical evidence to the contrary. He discusses the essentialist image of Islam; Edward Said's Orientalism and his critics; observing multiple modernities; modern Europe between positivism and Christian apology; the formation of