...” discourse. In key works shaping nineteenth-century political and psychological identifications with Africa, Black Atlantic writers erased the multistoried hybridity of a mixed Muslim, Arab, and “native” West Africa. To imagine a pan-African solidarity figured around nation building on a primitive frontier...

... on “the aestheticization of violence” and “transgressive sanctity” (5, 3), Gould offers an excellent reminder of the deep history of Muslim insurgency in the Caucasus, the complexity of that history, and its influence on non-Muslim countries, such as Georgia. As Gould describes it, Russian colonial violence gives rise...

.... The Roman de Thbes inherits from its classical source this challenge to the Trojan story of historical progress and cultural foundation. But the vernacular poem perhaps unsettles the medieval fantasy of Trojan origin even more by a change it makes to the Thebaid: it includes con- temporary Muslim...

... historically and literarily. In The Moor’s Last Sigh, for instance, Salman Rushdie begins his account of modern India with the Muslim defeat at Granada and its aftermath, when both Jews and Moors flee Spain once the sultan Boabdil has “surrendered the keys to the fortress- palace of the Alhambra, last...

... of Christian encounters with Jews; rather, it played a crucial role in shaping the history of anti-Semitism. Medieval Christian writers often grouped Muslims and Jews together. The infamous dress regulations of Lateran IV in 1215 decreed special sumptuary markers for both Jews and Saracens. But there were...

... Mosque in December 1992 and afterward. His focus is the relationship between Hindus and Muslims. At one level Enlightenment in the Colony can be said to “blame” European liberalism, which bequeathed to India the model of political sec- ularism that failed so dramatically in 1992. Yet Mufti also...

... Mosque in December 1992 and afterward. His focus is the relationship between Hindus and Muslims. At one level Enlightenment in the Colony can be said to “blame” European liberalism, which bequeathed to India the model of political sec- ularism that failed so dramatically in 1992. Yet Mufti also...

... Mosque in December 1992 and afterward. His focus is the relationship between Hindus and Muslims. At one level Enlightenment in the Colony can be said to “blame” European liberalism, which bequeathed to India the model of political sec- ularism that failed so dramatically in 1992. Yet Mufti also...

... Mosque in December 1992 and afterward. His focus is the relationship between Hindus and Muslims. At one level Enlightenment in the Colony can be said to “blame” European liberalism, which bequeathed to India the model of political sec- ularism that failed so dramatically in 1992. Yet Mufti also...

... Mosque in December 1992 and afterward. His focus is the relationship between Hindus and Muslims. At one level Enlightenment in the Colony can be said to “blame” European liberalism, which bequeathed to India the model of political sec- ularism that failed so dramatically in 1992. Yet Mufti also...

... Mosque in December 1992 and afterward. His focus is the relationship between Hindus and Muslims. At one level Enlightenment in the Colony can be said to “blame” European liberalism, which bequeathed to India the model of political sec- ularism that failed so dramatically in 1992. Yet Mufti also...

... Mosque in December 1992 and afterward. His focus is the relationship between Hindus and Muslims. At one level Enlightenment in the Colony can be said to “blame” European liberalism, which bequeathed to India the model of political sec- ularism that failed so dramatically in 1992. Yet Mufti also...

... Mosque in December 1992 and afterward. His focus is the relationship between Hindus and Muslims. At one level Enlightenment in the Colony can be said to “blame” European liberalism, which bequeathed to India the model of political sec- ularism that failed so dramatically in 1992. Yet Mufti also...

... Mosque in December 1992 and afterward. His focus is the relationship between Hindus and Muslims. At one level Enlightenment in the Colony can be said to “blame” European liberalism, which bequeathed to India the model of political sec- ularism that failed so dramatically in 1992. Yet Mufti also...

...- try that predate those asserted by Muslims. Once evidence of this iden- tity is unearthed, the task becomes one of revival and appropriation. One strategy of appropriation is to use the colony’s historical symbols for political ends. For instance, in a well-calculated gesture, a French journal...

... between the courtly poets and the aesthetes of Lucknow and Delhi. His second claim was to have crafted an extended (and largely erroneous) history of the “Urdu” language at Gilchrist’s request. Narrating its descent from Tamerlane and the Mughal courts, Amman presented Urdu as the legacy of a Muslim...

... to persuade himself of his superiority to the nasty crew by pointing out, in what seems to be her own elephantine loyalty to Jim, that he “duti- fully cuts loose the lifeboats for the Muslims after stopping only to give a thirsty man water and to repel the other officers’ attempt to include him...

...” (Malthus 1820 : 251). The economic virtues of temporal self-projection and prudential restraint as well as the capacity “to reason from the past to the future” (250) depend on the juridically guaranteed continuity between present and future possession. Under this view of things, the Muslim world...

... 170 MLQ ❙ June 2001 the Muslim Turks were monotheistic, and, arguably, he would have been acquainted with discussions beginning to differentiate among “pagans,” “heretics,” “apostates,” and “infidels.” In the fifteenth cen...

... protagonist is based on a historical character, the Muslim leader who conquered Constantinople in the fifteenth century, consolidated the Ottoman Empire, and threatened Venice and the rest of Christian Europe. In this melodramma serio, the infidel emperor attacks the Vene- tian colony of Negroponto...