Re-Imagining the Other

1. Front Matter

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2. Imagining the Other

   • Karim H. Karim, Mahmoud Eid

   Pages 1-21

3. Religion and Civilization

   • Jack Goody

   Pages 23-34

4. On the Eve of the Napoleonic Invasion: Arab Perceptions of the World

   • Nabil Matar

   Pages 35-56

5. Through Tinted Lenses: Iranian and Western Perceptions and Reconstructions of the Other

   • Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar

   Pages 57-73

6. The Clash of Civilizations 2.0: Race and Eurocentrism, Imperialism, and Anti-Imperialism

   • John M. Hobson

   Pages 75-97

7. Perceptions about Muslims in Western Societies

   • Mahmoud Eid

   Pages 99-119

8. A Clash of Discourses: Femicides or Honor Killings?

   • Yasmin Jiwani

   Pages 121-152

9. Islamic, Islamist, Moderate, Extremist: Imagining the Muslim Self and the Muslim Other

   • Karim H. Karim

   Pages 153-173

10. Religious conflict, Empire-Building, and the Imagined Other

    • Richard Rubenstein

    Pages 175-194

11. Translating Otherness

    • Salah Basalamah

    Pages 195-215

12. Re-Imagining the Other

    • Karim H. Karim, Mahmoud Eid

    Pages 217-231

13. Back Matter

    Pages 233-250

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The twenty-first century exploded into the global imagination with unforgettable scenes of death and destruction. An apocalyptic 'clash of civilizations' seemed to be waged between two old foes - 'the West' and 'Islam.' However, the decade-long and ruinous 'war on terror' has prompted re-assessments of the militaristic approach to Western-Muslim relations. A growing number of academics, policymakers, religious leaders, journalists, and activists view the struggles as resulting from a 'clash of ignorance.' Re-imagining the Other examines the ways in which knowledge is manipulated by dominant Western and Muslim discourses. Authors from several disciplines study how the two societies have constructed images of each other in historical and contemporary times. The complexities and subtleties of their mutually productive relationship are overshadowed by portrayals of unremitting clash, thus serving as encouragement for the promotion of war and terrorism. The book proposes specific approachesto re-imagine the Other in order to mitigate Western-Muslim conflict.

• American
• Arab
• art
• Australian
• Bible
• British
• Canadian
• Christian
• civilization
• clash
• colonialism
• communication
• conflict resolution
• conflict
• crisis
• crisis management
• culture
• Enlightenment
• Europe
• femicide
• Islam
• media
• perception

“A welcome contribution that provides a balanced insight into interactions between Western culture and societies with their Muslim counterparts. … an important milestone in developing the concept of the Clash of Ignorance, and proves the potential for the authors to take the implications of the idea further, perhaps even moving beyond the conceptual and terminological framework set by Said. … an important contribution and a must-read for scholars and students working on Western and Muslim relations.” (Omar Sayfo, Journal of Global Analysis, Vol. 7 (2), 2017)

"As the world contemplates the consequences of a global 'war on terror' that often positions predominantly Judeo-Christian Western societies against their Muslim counterparts, and as social and mass media bring to our collective consciousness horrific murders committed by terrorists purporting to act in the name of Islam, Re-Imagining the Other: Culture, Media, and Western-Muslim Intersections (2014) is a timely and welcome intellectual intervention. [...] [F]eaturing a collection of thought-provoking chapters written by well-known critical scholars, the book is informed by the position that a 'clash of ignorance' rather than a 'clash of civilizations' thesis better explains contemporary conflicts between Western and Muslim societies, which increasingly find expression in violence and social exclusion. [...] [This volume] speaks eloquently to the deep structure of the clash of ignorance and its ramifications for Western-Muslim relations; that is its strength and why it is a must-read.[...] [It] makes a significant contribution to critical scholarship on Western-Muslim relations, especially how mass mediatized narrative (re)productions inform these relations. Accordingly, this book is strongly recommended especially for graduate and senior undergraduate critical media studies courses" Felix Odartey-Wellington, University of Ottawa, Canada, Global Media Journal, Canadian Edition

Salah Basalamah, University of Ottawa, Canada Mahmoud Eid, University of Ottawa, Canada Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar, the University of Texas at Austin, USA Jack Goody, University of Cambridge, UK John M. Hobson, University of Sheffield, UK Yasmin Jiwani, Concordia University, Canada Karim H. Karim, Carleton University, Canada Nabil Matar, University of Minnesota, USA Richard Rubenstein, George Mason University, USA

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