Suchergebnisse

Introduction: History of A Coptic Imagination -- Lamenting Islam: Copto-Arabic Maledictions of An Assimilated People -- Fertile as Sheep: Medieval Islamic-Arabic Representations of Copts -- Imagining Conversion: Coptic Caliphs and the New Muslim Martyrs -- The Pope's Mangled Genitals: Persecution and Suffering in the Coptic Consciousness -- Conclusions: Remembering Copticness.

The task -- falls to the area specialists : national interests, knowledge production, and the emergence of an informal network -- The all-pervading influence of the Muslim faith : the perils and promise of political Islam -- A new amalgam of interests, religion, propaganda, and mobs : interpretations of secular mass politics -- What modernization requires of the Arabs -- is their de-Arabization : imagining a transformed Middle East -- A profound and growing disturbance -- which may last for decades : the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the limits of the network