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Crisis and Memory in Islamic Societies: Proceedings of the third Summer Academy of the Working Group Modernity and Islam held at the Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society in Beirut

This volume presents the proceedings. of the Third International Summer Academy held in Beirut in 1998 at the Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenldndischen Gesellschaft on behaif of the Working Group "Modernity and Islam" at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Crisis. both as a given socio-political situation and as a ubiquitous perception, as a predicament and as a challenge, has been discussed at the Summer Academy in most diverse representations. Likewise, memory has been traced in various contexts, ranging from a suburb in the West to a Muslim province of China in the East.

Language: English
ISBN: 9783899130751
1998, Paperback, 539 pages, 17.0 x 24.0 cm