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...Marc David Baer The article explores the Islam envisioned in the extensive writings of one of the most prominent German converts to Islam in Weimar Germany, the Jewish poet, philosopher, and political activist Hugo Marcus (1880–1966). Marcus's understanding of Islam is a surprisingly Eurocentric...

...Susannah Heschel From the 1830s to the 1930s Jewish scholars came to dominate Islamic studies in Europe, particularly Germany, Hungary, and France, concentrating primarily on the Qur'an and the life of Muhammad but also painting a broad canvas describing the nature of Islam as a religion...

... uses a documentary format to chronicle the lives of women whose gender performance confl icts with both ethnic traditions and the expectations of the majority culture. It thus engages with Muslim femininity as the linchpin of European debates about Islam’s compatibility with democracy and civic...

... and Social Criticism 46 , no. 2 ( 2020 ): 115 – 30 . Goh Irving . L’existence prépositionnelle . Paris : Galilée , 2019 . Gramling David. “ ‘You Pray Like We Have Fun’: Toward a Phenomenology of Secular Islam .” In Migration and Religion: Christian Transatlantic Missions...

... .” Discourse 39 , no. 3 ( 2017 ): 292 – 318 . Lohre Matthias . “ Halbmond über Brandenburg .” Die Zeit , December 11 , 2015 . www.zeit.de/zeit-geschichte/2015/04/wuensdorf-islam-brandenburg-erster-weltkrieg-moschee-muslime . Mbembe Achille . Critique of Black Reason . Durham, NC...

... is the fundamentalist answer to a fundamentalist act.”2 Many Americans would be incensed by the idea that the United States was in any way respon- sible for the Islamic reaction to Danish cartoons, but I am not one of them, and that claim does not interest me here (if for no other reason than the fact...

... the viewpoint of formal liberal principles. Consider the debates that take place as part of the German Islam Conference (Deutsche Islam Konferenz; DIK). Created as an official forum for “managing the relationship between the German state and Muslims in Germany,” its priorities have shifted from...

... incomprehensibly converted to Islam. This apostasy was prob- ably the most decisive reason why Zevi posed such a serious threat to tradi- tional Judaism. The Turkish sultan, who had captured the dissident Zevi, offered him the choice between death and conversion. Although death as a martyr would have been...

... asserted, avoided an illegitimate synthesis of philosophy and faith. This distinction stands at the heart of his claim that the medieval Jewish and Islamic tradition, based as it is on ancient Greek philosophy, offers itself as a corrective to the modern crisis-laden theoretical framework. According...

..., 2005. 94. Hirschmann, Terrorismus, 81. 132  Pushing the Defensive Wall large Turkish population is less influenced by Islamic fundamentalism than are other European Muslims. Most important, the threat of international ter- rorism has not generated political and generational battles about...

... of production, was perceived by the religious authorities rightly as a direct assault on divine control over time and its ritual orderings. That was not only true for the cultures of Islam, which delayed the introduction of printing with movable type for about three hundred years after its investiture...

... other looted goods, for example, Jewish private libraries, which were recently the focus of Gish Amit’s study, bring the restitu- tion queries into spaces like the Library of Congress and the Hebrew National Library in Jerusalem.7 Other questions about the looting of Islamic objects, either...

... that seem to have led Libes­ kind to perceive an essential resemblance between the conditions he responded to in the Jewish Museum and in the WTC proposal. The “free world,” a Cold War trope, conveniently found new meaning in the post–Cold War era as the signifier of the West as opposed to Islam...

...: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Stanford, CA: Stan- ford University Press, 2003); Gil Anidjar, “Secularism,” Critical Inquiry 33 (2006): 52–77. It is notorious how far once-secularist theorists have gone in fi nding a place for the alternative truth claims of religion in modern democracy. See, alongside...

..., and the supposed burden of liberal rights and freedoms on believers leads him to neglect what I take to be key problems in the relation of religion and politics today, namely, developments as diverse as Islamism, right- to-life activism, the propensity to violent confrontation between different reli- gious...

... from the Mischnaic era, from the victory of the “Poor” in Jerusalem, the time when the doctrine of charity and alms was born, which, with Christianity and Islam, spread around the world. It was at this time that the word zedaqa changed its meaning, because in the Bible...

... in theological debates.9 In an influential essay Gil Anidjar pushes one step farther, arguing that in the current confrontation between Islam and the West, the position of secularism is essentially Christian: “Secularism is a name Christianity gave itself when it invented religion, when it named its other...

... rallies of recent years, with their openly racist slo- gans, Confederate flags, and virulent rhetoric, or observed the recent rallies against “Islamization of Europe” organized by PEGIDA (Patriot Europeans against the Islamization of the West) in Germany, Habermas’s concern seems more relevant than...

... not of Islamic terrorists but of Mossad. This conspiracy-minded urban myth with its anti-Semitic overtones rapidly spread through cyberspace, and although the rumor was soon rejected in the United States and Europe (in part because it was shown to have originated from an anti-Zionist Web site...

...-Poujadist movement in the form of a Le Pen or a Nigel Farage to the fundamentalist antimodernism of radical Islam. But, as different 24. Ernst Bloch, Spuren (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1985), 220; my translation. 25. Franz Kafka to Oskar Pollack, January 27, 1904, in Letters to Friends...