Perceptions of Islam in Europe

ISBN: 9781848851641 出版年：2012 页码：233 Hakan Yilmaz Cagla E Aykac Bloomsbury Publishing

For centuries, the Islamic world has been represented as the 'other' within European identity constructions - an 'other' perceived to be increasingly at odds with European forms of modernity and culture. With the perceived gap between Islam and Europe widening, leading scholars in this work come together to provide genuine and realistic analyses about perceptions of Islam in the West. The book bridges these analyses with in-depth case studies from Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey and other parts of the European Union. This stuthe usual dichotomies of 'clashes of civilizations' and 'cultural conflict' to try to understand the numerous, diverse and multifacetconflictual, some peaceful - in which cultural exchanges have taken place historically, and which continue between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.