Redefining Islamic Identity: Cosmopolitanism in the Theater of Tawfiq Al- Hakim and Akbar Ahmed
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Gaber Abdelghaffar Abdelrahman Hasaneen
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Beard, Michael
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The University of North Dakota
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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164
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Carson, Sharon; Nelson, Chris; Stone, Lucian; Wolfe, Eric
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-83672-0
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
English
Body granting the degree
The University of North Dakota
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2016
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Comparative literature; Theater; Religion; Terrorism; Cultural identity
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Subject Term
Language, literature and linguistics;Communication and the arts;Ahmed;Akbar;Cosmopolitanism;Hakim;Identity;Islamic;Tawfiq;Theater