Redefining Islamic Identity: Cosmopolitanism in the Theater of Tawfiq Al- Hakim and Akbar Ahmed
[Thesis]
Gaber Abdelghaffar Abdelrahman Hasaneen
Beard, Michael
The University of North Dakota
2016
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Committee members: Carson, Sharon; Nelson, Chris; Stone, Lucian; Wolfe, Eric
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-83672-0
Ph.D.
English
The University of North Dakota
2016
The question whether Islam is compatible with American, or generally "Western", values has now imposed itself on public debates, gaining more urgency and traction with every tragic act of terrorism committed in the name of Islam. In these debates Islamic identity is usually defined in Orientalist terms. Fundamentalist Muslims reiterate Orientalist concepts of who a Muslim is. Orientalist observers on the one hand, and on the other fundamentalist Muslims have defined Islam as the West's inimical Other, which has made the so-called clash of civilizations sound inevitable.
Comparative literature; Theater; Religion; Terrorism; Cultural identity
Language, literature and linguistics;Communication and the arts;Ahmed;Akbar;Cosmopolitanism;Hakim;Identity;Islamic;Tawfiq;Theater