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...knew very little about Muslims, so I thought the whole “clash of civilizations?? paradigm needed some integration post-9/11 when we were suddenly being told that there was this entire religion out to get us, and that seemed a little odd to me...and I’m just naturally a very curious person. In the course of my original research I discovered that a lot of American Muslims are interested in pop culture...I decided to investigate hip-hop culture, which ultimately led me to meeting Hamza and Suliman [Hamza?...
...former student of Huntington’s. “He was an inspiration...He was always there for his students.” Huntington’s most famous academic treatise posited that cultural and religious differences between the world’s major civilizations??rather than ideological disparities between political states—would be the cause of violent conflicts in a post-Cold War world. The theory drew controversy for its focus on differences between civilizations when it was first published in 1993. Some at the time criticized the work for reinforcing and oversimplifying cultural...
...interested observer at a moment in history that would be the envy of any travel writer to-day. If the film does nothing but intrigue the viewers to become more acquainted with this astonishing story, it will have served to soften the supposed “clash of civilizations??. It will also have earned the sponsorship of the National Geographic. Indeed, given all the attention lavished on the magnificent photography, the deserts, the ancient cities, the caravans, (and even bandits) it is a weakness of the film that the remarkable story of Ibn Battuta is not more developed...
...uniquely dramatic manner. It certainly presents some of the spiritual aspects of the Islamic heritage in an entertaining, yet responsible way rarely, if ever, presented in the cinema in the West. The producers are to be commended for a positive contribution to the “dialogue of civilizations?? at a sensitive moment in world history...
...Huntington's most famous academic treatise espoused that cultural and religious differences between the world’s major civilizations??rather than ideological disparities between political states—would be the cause of violent conflicts in a post-Cold War world...