Mapping the diverse images of Islam and Muslims in educational texts as reproduced in national contexts across Europe and neighboring regions, Narrating Islam explores both historical perceptions and contemporary representations of Islam and Muslims as projected through instructional media. Based on interdisciplinary research, it seeks to excavate the layered images of Muslims and Islam which have been historically embedded in semantic reservoirs and which feed into the modern scripting of the ‘other’ in a global context. Narrating Islam offers a framework to critically discuss European identity through interrogating how pedagogical discourses negotiate the Muslim presence in and around Europe.
Author(s): Gerdien Jonker, Shiraz Thobani
Series: Library of Modern Middle East Studies 80
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 305
Contents......Page 6
List of illustrations and charts......Page 8
Acronyms and abbreviations......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction: interpretations of the Muslim world in European texts......Page 12
1. The 'longue duree' of the Islam narrative: the emergence of a script for German history education (1550 to 1804)......Page 22
2. Representations of Muslim Andalus in the scholarly historical texts of Catalonia (1714-1900)......Page 51
3. Cross-referencing images of Muslims and Islam in Russian and Tatar textbooks (1747-2007)......Page 73
4. Bringing the Ottoman Empire into the European narrative: historians' debates in the Council of Europe......Page 106
5. Intertwined identities: a gender-based reading of the visual representations of contemporary Islam in European textbooks......Page 131
6. Who were the 'others' at Poitiers? Medieval Islam as both cultured and daily stereotype......Page 162
7. Islamization reconsidered: Islam and Muslim Albanians in Albanian history texts (1973-2006)......Page 179
8. Europe in three generations of Moroccan textbooks (1970-2002)......Page 205
9. Others or ours? The role of the popular media in public perceptions of Muslims in Russia after 9/11......Page 224
10. Peripheral vision in the national curriculum: Muslim history in the British educational context......Page 245
References......Page 268
Notes on contributors......Page 289
Index......Page 294
