This chapter provides a comparative critical overview and assessment of the logics and mechanisms for Muslim representation in Europe as they have emerged and been consolidated in the two decades at the turn of the millennium. First, it seeks to illuminate the dual thinking behind – and the causes for – policy decisions that have...Read More
This paper investigates the Islam and Muslim life in German textbooks. The study is based on the analysis of current Geography textbooks in Bavarian secondary schools. As a first step, the authors developed a system for objective analysis of the textbooks that structures the content in categories. In a second step, the authors used the...Read More
The course of Islamic science and technology used to be portrayed as a play in four acts. From around 750 to 950 CE, translators made available the wisdom of Ancient Greece. Scholars of the ‘golden age’ elaborated a little on this legacy, before transmitting it to Christendom. …Only in the twentieth century did Muslims enter...Read More
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