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...Islam as a global issue is more of an interest to students,” said Arabic professor William Granara, connecting this interest to political developments in the Middle East. “More and more kids are interested in Arabic as a language, where there is high media interest...
...Though their roots are in Persia and Arabia, the stories of Amir Hamza blossomed most fully on the Indian subcontinent - a crossroads of religions, languages and narrative styles. "When it entered India, the sky was clearly the limit," says Muhammad Memon, professor of literature and Islamic studies at the University of Wisconsin. The richness of India's modes of cultural expression - particularly its blending of Sufi Islam and the mythological repertoire of the older strains of Hinduism - prompted opulent embellishments of the epic, deepening its playful world of myriad magical creatures and warlords riding rhinoceroses...
...terrorism and conflicts ranging from the Iranian Revolution to the Iraq war. But accounts like Andelman’s lead one to wonder how examining the past can help us to move forward in the future. While Bernard Lewis’s celebrated account of the fall of ancient Islamic civilization, “What Went Wrong?,” traced the roots of tension in the Middle East to the anti-modern tendencies of Islam, it begged the question: What do we do now? “A Shattered Peace” leads the reader to ask the same...
...COUNTRY The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is made up of 165 million people, divided among several tribal and linguistic groups, united only by its military and by Islam - and that in many different stripes of tradition, conservatism and modernity. Pakistan and its military leaders were key allies of the U.S., supporting the mujaheddin war in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union after Moscow invaded and occupied that country. That Afghan war, which ended with the Soviet defeat in 1989, assumed a religious nature in the Islamic world and, as it came to a close, fostered the rise of Osama bin Laden...
...damage inflicted by the Lowell incident, in spite of all of the walking positive images of black men to be found right on this campus, I’d have to agree with the latter. Those who see minorities through a stereotype, whether it’s equating Islam with fascism or labeling all Hispanics as illegal immigrants, are the people that really want to. They refuse to have the depth of thought to view people different from them as individuals and move beyond their preconceived beliefs. For the most part, they are not seeking to have their minds changed.That...