Misnomers and Cultural Choices: How Islam Tries to Impose Its Norms on Non-Muslims Contributor(s): Israeli, Raphael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1950860035 ISBN-13: 9781950860036 Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, LL OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Language - Religion | Islam - General - Religion | Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict |
Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6" W x 9" (1.40 lbs) 436 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
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Publisher Description: Misnomers are often used in international politics to describe issues and situations that use common words, but carry different meanings. For example, tolerance, suicide bombers, women's equality, and many other words are commonly used by Muslims to make us believe that these words mean the equivalent of the jargon we know, when in fact they cover up dark schemes that depart miles from conventional meanings.
A wide array of examples and situations of Muslim misnomers are cited and elaborated in the book. Raphael Israeli has taught Islamic, Chinese, and Middle Eastern history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A graduate of Hebrew University in history and Arabic literature, he earned a Ph.D. in Chinese and Islamic history from the University of California, Berkeley. Now retired, he has been a Fellow of the Harry Truman Research Institute at Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Center since the 1970s, and is the author of over 50 research books, a dozen edited books, and 100 scholarly articles about Islam. |