Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion: New Perspectives from.
The Middle East as Seen Through Foreign Eyes Gustave Dore’s Engraving of Canto XXVIII (Lines 30 and 31 of Inferno, the First Part of Dante Alighieri’s Epic Poem, the Divine Comedy) Conceptions of the Middle East and wider Muslim world are rooted in European culture.
Overview Introduction. The Islamic Middle East has given rise to an impressive material culture that continues in the present. This programme covers an area stretching from Islamic Spain through the Arab countries, Turkey, Iran and Central Asia in diverse historical periods.
Taking historical perspective means understanding the social, cultural, intellectual, and emotional settings that shaped people’s lives and actions in the past. At any one point, different historical actors may have acted on the basis of conflicting beliefs and ideologies, so understanding diverse perspectives is also a key to historical perspective-taking.
The only general accounts of women in Arab or Muslim history available when I started to research this book (some ten years ago) were such works as Wiebke Walther’sWoman in Islam,an attractively illustrated book, more anecdotal than analytical, which took little if any notice of the perspectives on women in history that contemporary feminist research on Western women, and to some extent on.
WOMEN AND ISLAM An Historical and Theological Perspective At the centre of any discussion about Muslim women is the researcher's basic task to undertake an enquiry into the Islamic holy texts and into the historical context in which they were revealed and practised by what is now.
On Muslim women and the Islamic dress code The assumption that God demands submission can mislead women and turn conflicts of conscience into desperation. After all, it is women who are cheated out of their life before death by the social limitations associated with covering their heads and bodies. An essay by Emel Zeynelabidin.
ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE CRUSADES PAST AND PRESENT By Robert Noel Duprez, Jr University of New Hampshire, May, 2011 It is important that scholars use a variety of researching methods when analyzing the effect of the Crusades, how they affected Islamic perspectives of the West during the period 1095-1291, and their imprint on today's world.