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Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices explores the musical practices that circulate the Mediterranean Sea. Collectively, the authors relate this musical flow to broader transnational flows of people and power that generate complex encounters, bringing the diverse cultures of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East into new and challenging forms of contact. Individually, the chapters offer detailed ethnographic and historiographic studies of music's multifaceted roles in such interactions. From collaborations between Moroccan migrant and Spanish Muslim convert musicians in Granada, to the incorporation of West African sonorities and Hasidic melodies in the musical liturgy of Abu Ghosh Abbey, Jerusalem, these communities sing, play, dance, listen, and record their diverse experiences of encounter at the Mediterranean crossroads.

On 7 January 2015, the day of the murderous attack on the offices of the Paris satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo , the cover of the current issue showed a drunken Michel Houellebecq in a wizard's cap making two prophecies: "In 2016 I will lose my teeth. In 2022 I will observe Ramadan." Houellebecq had previously described Islam as "the stupidest of religions." But on that day, as terrorists sought to bring the justice of Islam to blasphemers for whom Michel Houellebecq was insufficiently anti-Islamic, Houellebecq's novel Submission , depicting the democratic conquest of France by the Muslim Brotherhood, was published by Flammarion. In this collection, an international cast of authorities on politics and literature discuss the meaning and unprecedented impact of Michel Houellebecq's Submission

This book explores how philanthropy is perceived and practiced in a predominantly Muslim society. It is the first academic quantification of philanthropic giving and volunteering using a representative sample of the Egyptian population, providing the reader with a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the state of philanthropy in Egypt. The book discusses traditional and religious philanthropic mechanisms and provides a thorough explanation of the waqf system, how it is perceived today, and how it could support innovation. Furthermore, as a solid direct product of the research embodied in the creation of a community foundation, it discusses reviving and modernizing the concept of waqf, thus elaborating an example of how academic studies may be employed to create proto-types for learning and calculated action

Flight into authoritarianism : the dynamics of right-wing extremism at the centre of society / Oliver Decker -- The Leipzig authoritarianism study 2018 : methodology, results, and long-term changes / Oliver Decker, Johannes Kiess, Julia Schuler, Barbara Handke and Elmar Brähler -- The authoritarian syndrome today / Oliver Decker, Julia Schuler and Elmar Brähler -- Recognition and authoritarian statehood / Oliver Decker, Alexander Yendell and Elmar Brähler -- Anti-Semitic attitudes in Germany : their prevalence and causes / Oliver Decker, Johannes Kiess and Elmar Brähler -- Religion as a factor of conflict in relation to right-wing extremism, hostility to Muslims, and support for the AfD / Gert Pickel and Alexander Yendell -- Authoritarian dynamics and social conflicts : the Leipzig authoritarianism studies / Oliver Decker, Johannes Kiess and Elmar Brähler.

Before President Erdogan's repressive politics took hold, queer cultures were more visible than ever in Turkey. Queer Turkey offers a broad range of reflections on queer Turkish cultures within a transnational, Euro-American context. Based on his experience in Istanbul, the author shares his impressions of queer desires between Muslim tradition and global pop, observes what goes on in the hamam, and wonders about Arabesk culture. The book features discussions of queer travel writers, poets, playwrights, and film directors. Their multifarious works manifest the subtle and subversive ways in which artists crisscross the cultural borders of East and West. With its many facets of Turkish-Euro-American cultural interactions, Queer Turkey outlines a kaleidoscope of transnational poetics.

Muslime, die neben Allah die Göttin des Südmeeres verehren, das rituelle Fasten durch Arbeit ersetzen oder den Koran feministisch auslegen: Susanne Schröter führt kurzweilig durch unbekannte Welten des Islams, die vor allem eines gemeinsam haben: Sie gehören zu den "bedrohten Arten", die von Fundamentalisten und Radikalen bekämpft werden. Die tanzenden Derwische in der Türkei haben eine eigene Orthodoxie ausgebildet, während es auf dem Balkan seit langem einen unorthodoxen, genuin europäischen Islam gibt. Im Sudan unterläuft der Zar-Kult rigide Scharia-Regeln. Im Senegal leiten mächtige Scheichs zu einem Leben im Rhythmus von Gebet, Arbeit und Musik an. In Malaysia existieren alte muslimische Matriarchate, während in den USA eine progressive muslimische Subkultur blüht und in Deutschland liberale Vereinigungen mit Imaminnen entstehen. Mit den Ibaditen im Oman ist eine traditionell tolerante Glaubensrichtung zu entdecken. In Pakistan haben sich Sufi-Heiligtümer zu gesellschaftlichen Freiräumen entwickelt, auch für Transgender. Auf der Insel Java ist der Islam mit Hinduismus und Buddhismus verschmolzen, und in China entwickelt sich unter den Augen der KP ein interreligiöser Islam. Susanne Schröters erstaunliche Reise durch das islamische Multiversum zeigt auf schönste Weise, dass die zweitgrößte Weltreligion vielfältiger, "diverser", kreativer und pragmatischer ist, als es uns islamische Fundamentalisten und wütende Islamkritiker glauben machen wollen

"Race, Faith and Planning in Britain adopts a critical race theory perspective to analyse and discuss challenges of planning in contemporary multi-ethnic Britain. Exploring how planning is affected by and affects the racialization of social relations, this book charts the history of the UK planning system's approach, in terms of the spatial consequences of immigration, discourses of diversity and cohesion, citizenship and belonging. Authors Richard Gale and Huw Thomas pay special attention to the experiences of minority groups in Britain, including Gypsies and Travellers, and British Muslims. They underline that the struggle over planning in racialized societies must be construed as part of a wider political struggle over equality. This book is an essential read for students and practitioners of planning in multicultural contexts"--

"Letters from Khartoum is a partial biography of Scottish educator, D.R. Ewen, who taught English Literature at the University of Khartoum from the time of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium through to Independence and the October 1964 Revolution. The administrative history of the then unified nation - North (Middle Eastern) and South (African) - makes the Sudan a unique setting to explore the workings of colonial education. The purpose of teaching English literature there was to remake the Muslim Sudanese of the North as the proxy agents of British culture who would administrate the first independent nation in Africa. But Ewen also was remade in the process - by his relationships with his students and colleagues, and by his own teaching innovations"--

Turkey has a history of multiparty electoral competition going back to 1950, longer than many other nations in the world. Until recently, it was often perceived as a model country that showed the feasibility of democratic governance in a Muslim-majority society. However, the rise of religious-nationalist populism and sociopolitical polarization has resulted in an authoritarian turn that has stifled political liberalization. Turkish foreign policy has had strong linkages with the West but now exhibits a more independent and assertive position. Turkish national identity remains exclusionary as citizens not belonging to the dominant ethnic and religious groups face various levels of discrimination. Political violence persists in the forms of state repression, insurgent attacks, and terrorism; nevertheless, Turkish civil society continues to be resilient.

This first volume examines how sexual mores and behavior, religious dogma and practice, and artistic creativity and authenticity have influenced, and been influenced by, the existentialist thought of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, Nietzsche, Husserl and Buber, and the writings of Camus, Dostoevsky, Beckett, Kafka and Shestov.It compares the author's personality theory with those of Freud, Jung, Fairbairn, Karl Abraham and Melanie Klein, and Buddhist, Gnostic, Christian and Muslim mysticism with Jewish Kabbalah. It explains society's harsh treatment of Carlo Gesualdo, Vincent van Gogh and Antonin Artaud, and analyzes the existentialist approach to existence, absurdity, human dialogue, and suicide.It will appeal to students and professionals in fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, religion, law, music, art, drama, literature and biology.

This second volume examines how sexual mores and behavior, religious dogma and practice, and literary creativity and authenticity have influenced and been influenced by the existentialist thought of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre, Nietzsche, Husserl and Buber, and the writings of Camus, Dostoevsky, Beckett, Shestov, Berdyaev and Tillich.It compares human and cultural attributes with the attributes of pagan and monotheistic Gods, and Buddhist, Gnostic, Christian and Muslim mysticism with Jewish Kabbalah. It explains society's harsh treatment of Vincent van Gogh and Antonin Artaud, and analyzes the existentialist approach to existence, absurdity, human dialogue, cosmology, and quantum mechanics.It will appeal to students and professionals in fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, religion, law, art, drama, literature, cosmology and physics.

Zwanzig Texte um Verbundenheit und Feindseligkeit in Familie, Politik, Literatur, Kultur, Sport und Religion aus jüdischer bzw. israelischer Perspektive. Thematisiert werden Politikerfreundschaften, Diskurse um Literatur und Literaten, gegnerische Sportvereine, Anti- und Philosemitismus u.v.a.m. Rezension: Die neue Ausgabe des Jüdischen Almanachs (zuletzt "Sex & Crime", 2019) enthält 19 Essays und eine Erzählung, die sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten des Themas auseinandersetzen. Die Autor*innen - Wissenschaftler*innen und Publizist*innen - beschäftigen sich mit Trennendem und Verbindendem zwischen Menschen, in Diskursen, in Literatur, Kultur, Religion und Politik. Untersucht werden der Freundschaftsbegriff in der jüdischen Tradition, Antisemitismus und Philosemitismus, persönliche und politische Freundschaften wie die zwischen Rabbiner Heschel und Luther King jr., Adenauer und Ben-Gurion, Sadat und Begin, die Rivalität zwischen zwei israelischen Sportvereinen, das Verhältnis von Muslimen und Juden in Frankreich. Es geht um einen Streit, den Heine mit von Platen führte, jüdische und arabische Freimaurer in Israel, um Günter Grass, dem in Israel zunächst Sympathie entgegengebracht wurde, die in Antipathie umschlug, um das Interesse eines Rabbiners am Hinduismus u.a. - Anspruchsvolle, interessante Beiträge, die eine Vielfalt von Perspektiven auf das Thema abbilden. (2-3)

Popular culture and quotidian nationalism / Tim Nieguth -- Donut nation : Tim Hortons and Canadian identity / Yasmeen Abu-Laban -- Völkisch vibes : neofolk, place, politics, and pan-European Nationalism / Robert A. Saunders -- Contemporary Israeli television challenges national traumas / Adia Mendelson-Maoz and Liat Steir-Livny -- The burka and beyond : burka avenger, Muslim women, and Pakistani national identity / Lena Saleh -- Triple J's hottest 100 : Australia's largest music democracy? / Jennifer Phillips -- Transnational laughter : reception and conservative policies of transposition : the case of the Nanny and Married with Children / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Understanding nationalism in popular culture through the lenses of affect and circulation / Emily West -- "Nothing here Is what it seems" : Firefly, anti-statism, and American national identity / Tim Nieguth.

"This book traces the history of refugee resettlement to Fargo, ND, from 1980 to the present, showing how culture, political economy, and institutional transformations collectively contribute to the racialization of white cities like Fargo in ways that complicate their demographics and the space they hold in an American imaginary of the idyllic and homogenous small town. Through participant observation, discourse analysis, multi-sited ethnography, and interviews, Erickson compares citizenship practices among two social service institutions (refugee resettlement and welfare) and two groups of refugees (Bosnians and Southern Sudanese). Through the comparative study of white, secular Muslim Bosnians and black Christian Southern Sudanese, the book demonstrates how cross-cultural and transnational understandings of race, ethnicity, class, religion shape daily citizenship practices and belonging."--

Frontmatter -- Letter from the General Editor -- About this Paperback -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- Notes to the Introduction -- The First Chapter, On the Reprehensibility of Employing Dhimmis for the Muslims' Jobs, in Fifteen Sections -- The Second Chapter, A Description of the Copts and Their Perfidies, in Fifteen Sections -- The Third Chapter, A Description of Secretaries and Their Art, in Three Sections -- The Fourth Chapter, An Account of the Ignorant Men Who Have Unworthily Donned the Garments of the Secretaries, in Three Sections -- Notes -- The Fatimid Caliphs in Egypt -- The Ayyubid Sultans in Egypt -- Glossary of Names and Terms -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Index -- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute -- About the Translator -- The Library of Arabic Literature