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Part of the general article "Orte des Islam", including Mecca, Medina, and Aleppo
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Arabic translation of "Annäherung und Distanz" (1996), published al-Tanwīr li-l-nashr wa-l-iʿlām, Cairo 2017
(unauthorized) translation of "Islamic Ecumenism in the 20th Century"
Publication View. 56168743. Annäherung und Distanz : Schia, Azhar und die islamische Ökumene im 20. Jahrhundert / (1996). Brunner, Rainer. Abstract. Modifié de: Diss.--Gemeinsame Aussschuß der philosophischen... more
Publication View. 56168743. Annäherung und Distanz : Schia, Azhar und die islamische Ökumene im 20. Jahrhundert / (1996). Brunner, Rainer. Abstract. Modifié de: Diss.--Gemeinsame Aussschuß der philosophischen Fakultäten--Freiburg-im-Breisgau Universität, 1995.. ...
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A substantial amount of Muslim writings (as well as Western postcolonial and third-world literature) on the modern history of the so-called Islamic world make a living emphasizing the supposedly crusader-like nature of European colonial... more
A substantial amount of Muslim writings (as well as Western postcolonial and third-world literature) on the modern history of the so-called Islamic world make a living emphasizing the supposedly crusader-like nature of European colonial rule between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries. While it is certainly true that colonialists were primarily motivated by strategic interests and economic exploitation rather than by altruism and charity, their behaviour in their colonies was anything but inevitably hostile. Pragmatism and accommodation reigned in many places, more often than not combined with condescension and paternalism, which did not, however, preclude periods of suppression and warfare. Islam and the European Empires,