...Theorizing Islam in World History ...

... Repetitio n has an exemplary status in Slavoj Žižek’s philosophy. This chapter explores the possibilities of repeating Islam. Is it possible to read Islam the way Žižek reads Christianity? Žižek’s innovative reading of Christianity, the chapter argues, can serve as a “model” for reading Islam...

... The 1990s witnessed the formation of religious middle classes transforming the terms of public debates in Turkey. Islamic films and novels became popular in cultural criticism, and new spaces, markets, and media with religious accents proliferated. This public Islam testifies to a shift...

... that it seeks ways to relate to the familiar Other, Turkish migrants in Europe. The controversy around the statue illustrates how the European aesthetic realm becomes a battleground for intercultural conflicts as well as a domain of borrowings and mixings between native European and immigrant Islamic, between...

... This chapter discusses how European frontiers are culturally redrawn by “othering” Islam. General resentment against Turkey’s EU membership was one of the first signals indicating Europe’s trouble with Islam. Europe is defined as essentially secular and not compatible with Muslim presence. Both...

... This chapter argues that the convergence of two major world and regional religious movements—the Islamic reformist movement that established the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria and the Christian evangelical movement in Atlantic Southern Nigeria—provided the social and political platform...

... Chapter 2 argues that following the transformation of the Northern Nigerian region by the Sokoto Jihad in the nineteenth century, Islamic structures provided the crucial structural and ideological frameworks on which the British colonial administrative system was rationalized in the Northern...