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Archaeology, Politics and Islamicate Cultural Heritage in Europe

2022
Archaeology, Politics and Islamicate Cultural Heritage in Europe responds to the wishes of specialists in the history and archaeology of Islamicate societies in Europe to explore the integration of these societies into historical narratives. In order to deal with the multiple implications and wide ramifications of the subject matter, the book offers a ...
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Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe

2013
Culture is a constant reference in debates surrounding Islam in Europe. Yet the notion of culture is commonly restricted to conceptual frames of multiculturalism where it relates to group identities, collective ways of life and recognition. This volume extends such analysis of culture by approaching it as semiotic practice which conjoins the making of ...
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Islamic Cultural Nationalism and Gender Politics in Iran

Third World Quarterly, 2008
Abstract Over two decades of women's resistance and ceaseless efforts to overcome gender barriers in post-revolutionary Iran demonstrate that developmentalist policies of the ancien regime positively changed women's self-image and expectations.
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Islamic Political Culture, Democracy, and Human Rights

1999
What affect does Islamic political culture have on democracy and human rights practices? It has been argued that Islam facilitates authoritarianism, contradicts the values of Western societies, and significantly affects important political outcomes in Muslim countries.
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Islamic Political Culture and Constitutional Change in Nigeria

Issue, 1981
This essay attempts to summarize the Islamic aspect of political culture in Nigeria. It is not intended as an analysis of the recent elections in Nigeria whereby civilian governments were established to replace the military regime. Yet the emphasis on constitutional change, focuses on those aspects of Islamic culture in Nigeria which are likely to ...
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Cinema and Iran: Culture and Politics in the Islamic Republic

Asian Cinema, 2001
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the development of cinema in Iran since the revolution and to provide a framework, (by locating it within the social, political and cultural landscape of Iran itself and by linking it to the historical development of the "third cinema"), in which to understand, interpret and locate this evolution.
Ali Mohammadi, Eric Egan
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Consumer Culture, Islam and the Politics of Lifestyle

European Journal of Communication, 2002
This article traces the growth of the `fashion for veiling' which has grown in Turkey since the early 1990s, and discusses the representation of Muslim women in both the cultural and public spheres in the late 1980s. The practice of veiling has been chosen to explore how religious iconography is changing to reflect new patterns of consumption and ...
Kilicbay, B, Binark, M
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Women’s Rights in Islamic Shari’a: Between Interpretation, Culture and Politics

Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, 2014
AbstractThis article analyses existing biases – whether due to misinterpretation, culture or politics – in the application of women’s rights under Islamic Shari’a law. The paper argues that though in its inception, one purpose of Islamic law may have aimed at elevating the status of women in pre-Islamic Arabia, biases in interpreting such teachings ...
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The Political Usage of "Islam" and "Arab Culture"

Public Opinion Quarterly, 1961
Vague words are frequently used in describing the goals of developing countries, although it is often assumed such terms have specific political meaning in the culture in which they are found. Inquiry shows that Middle Easterners have great difficulty attaching meaning to two such terms when asked to differentiate between them. Douglas E.
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Ritual, culture and politics of Islamic reformism in Algeria

Middle Eastern Studies, 1987
In the historiography of modem Algeria, there seems to be a wide consensus that Islam and nationalism are closely interwoven. The leader of the initial resistance against the French, the Amir Abd al-Qadir, was at once a religious leader and a political one.
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