De islamiske religiøse idealer medførte, at muslimerne ikke gerne engagerede sig i krig eller regeringsanliggender, hvorfor de gennem tiderne systematisk skaffede sig udenlandske slaver, som blev uddannet og anvendt som professionelle soldater, første gang omkring 815-820, f.eks…
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This book provides an overview of Muslim societies in Africa in light of their role in African history and the history of the Islamic world. The author identifies patterns and peculiarities in the historical, social, economic, and political development of Africa, and addresses t…
The social and linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. Before the Muslim invasion of 827, the islanders spoke dialects of either Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival of the Normans around 1060 Arabic was the dominant language, but by 1250 Sicily w…
In the 1820s, Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi, a young Muslim cleric, was a leading member of the first Egyptian educational mission to Paris, where he remained for five years, documenting his observations of European culture. His account, Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz, is one of th…
The late 1980s and early 1990s saw dramatic shifts in race relations in Britain. It was the time of the fracturing of a political 'black' identity; of ethnic minority assertions to be British and about remaking what it is to be British; of the manifestation of the social mobilit…
Debatbog om befolkningens religiøse og sekulære holdninger i Tyrkiet. Efter 1. verdenskrig søgt Tyrkiet i høj grad mod Europa, det ses fx ved deres lang, og stadig vedvarende, optagelse proces til EU. Den politiske orientering mod Europa gjorde også, at tyrkerne i en lang årrækk…
Debatbog om befolkningens religiøse og sekulære holdninger i Tyrkiet. Efter 1. verdenskrig søgt Tyrkiet i høj grad mod Europa, det ses fx ved deres lang, og stadig vedvarende, optagelse proces til EU. Den politiske orientering mod Europa gjorde også, at tyrkerne i en lang årrækk…
Focuses on how questions surrounding the conversion of Muslims and Jews to Christianity in 16th and 17th century Spain drove religious reform and scholarly innovation.
Focuses on how questions surrounding the conversion of Muslims and Jews to Christianity in 16th and 17th century Spain drove religious reform and scholarly innovation.
