An anthropology of Muslims in Europe - A modest attempt by Martijn
The photo above is one of historical significance. It shows Bosnian Muslim women Zejneba Hardaga covering the Star of David on Rivka Kabilio’s hand who was a Bosnian Jew women. Both were living in...
Dit jaar is het 27 jaar geleden dat Bosnisch-Servische troepen de ‘safe area’ van Srebrenica belegerden. Duizenden vluchtelingen hadden daar een goed heenkomen gezocht na drie jaar van oorlog en etnische zuiveringen. Het gebied...
In a series of posts based upon my Dutch essay of five years ago, I look at how Fortuyn reproduced the idea of Muslims as the ultimate Other and how his ideas were both a break with and a continuation from earlier periods. I do this on the basis of an analysis of his book (Against) The Islamization of our culture, my previous research in Gouda and my current research into interventions by Muslims in the public domain.
In 2017 was er een interessant plan: een nieuwe moskee verbonden met de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse samenleving, in het bijzonder die van de expats uit Turkije en Marokko (meestal gastarbeiders genoemd). Maar zoals...
The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power (GRSP) project of Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs to systematically study the use of religion in foreign affairs. As we read on their website: Through...
One of the best podasts about “the radical aspects of music, politics, and sports” is RADIKAAL a DIY podcast hosted by Cas Mudde. Guests include academics, athletes, journalists, musicians, and politicians. In short, this...
Charles Hirschkind, discusses his new book The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia (University of Chicago Press, 2020) with Hasan Azad, PhD. In today’s world, the lines between Europe and the Middle East,...
In order to promote animal welfare in the context of ritual slaughter, Member States may, without infringing the fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter, require a reversible stunning procedure which cannot result in the...
How were the lives of Muslims in interwar Europe? The Documentary Karlstraße 10 starts in an online telephone directory searching for an Arab family name in nowadays Germany to end in telling many stories...
In his book Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today (Princeton UP, 2019), John Tolan analyzes the perceptions of Muhammad as understood by Christian Europeans....
