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IslamIc myths and memorIes To the memory of Joseph Kostiner Islamic Myths and Memories Mediators of Globalization Edited by Itzchak WeIsMann Haifa University, Israel Mark sedGWIck Aarhus University, Denmark UlrIka Mårtensson Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway © Itzchak Weismann, mark sedgwick and Ulrika mårtensson 2014 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Itzchak Weismann, mark sedgwick and Ulrika mårtensson have asserted their right under the copyright, designs and Patents act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing company Wey court east 110 cherry street Union road suite 3-1 Farnham Burlington, Vt 05401-3818 surrey, GU9 7Pt Usa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data a catalogue record for this book is available from the British library. The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Islamic myths and memories : mediators of globalization / edited by Itzchak Weismann, mark sedgwick and Ulrika mårtensson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. IsBn 978-1-4724-1149-5 (hardcover) – IsBn 978-1-4724-1150-1 (ebook) – IsBn 978- 1-4724-1151-8 (epub) 1. Globalization–religious aspects–Islam. 2. Islam–historiography. 3. Islamic sociology. I. Weismann, Itzchak. II. sedgwick, mark J. III. mårtensson, Ulrika. BP190.5.G56I85 2014 297.2'7–dc23 2013051040 IsBn 9781472411495 (hbk) IsBn 9781472411501 (ebk – PdF) IsBn 9781472411518 (ebk – ePUB) IV Printed in the United kingdom by henry ling limited, at the dorset Press, dorchester, dt1 1hd Contents List of Figures and Tables vii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Islamic Myths and Memories Facing the Challenge of Globalization 1 Itzchak Weismann, Mark Sedgwick and Ulrika Mårtensson PART I The PAsT In The PResenT 1 Modern and Islamic Icons in Arab-Islamic Popular historical Memory 15 Mark Sedgwick 2 The Ottoman empire as harmonious Utopia: A historical Myth and its Function 35 Martin Riexinger 3 From a Red Guard to a Jahrinya: A Chinese Author’s Return to Islam 53 Xiaofei Tu 4 satan and the Temptation of state Power: Medieval Islamic Myth in Global society 71 Ulrika Mårtensson vi Islamic Myths and Memories PART II sACRed PlACes And PeRsOns 5 The Glocalization of al-haram al-sharif: designing Memory, Mystifying Place 99 Nimrod Luz 6 The Myth of Perpetual departure: sufis in a new (Age) Global (dis)Order 121 Itzchak Weismann 7 shaykh Osama Bin laden: An evolving Global Myth 139 Anne Birgitta Nilsen PART III PReAChInG, new And Old 8 The Postmodern Reconstitution of an Islamic Memory: Theory and Practice in the Case of Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s Virtual Umma 163 Uriya Shavit 9 The Rating of Allah: The Renaissance of Preaching in the Age of Globalization 185 Shosh Ben-Ari 10 The Reception of Islamic Prophet stories within Muslim Communities in norway and Germany 209 Gerd Marie Ådna Select Bibliography 233 Index 257 List of Figures and Tables Figures 7.1 Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri in the mountains of Afghanistan 150 7.2 Al-mujahid 151 7.3 The shaykh 153 7.4 The mythical shaykh 156 7.5 The mythical mujahid 157 Tables 1.1 Top ten Arab searches (excluding Muhammad) by area 25 1.2 Top Arab searches 26 1.3 National searches 27 This page has been left blank intentionally Notes on Contributors Gerd Marie Ådna is an associate professor at the School of Mission and Theology in Stavanger, Norway, where she teaches Religious Studies. She works on Islam, rituals, and the pedagogics and didactics of religion. Her doctoral thesis, “O Son of the Two Sacrifices: Muhammad and the Formation of Sacrifice in Early Islam,” was defended at the University of Bergen in 2007. Shosh Ben-Ari is a senior lecturer in Middle East History and Arabic and Islamic Literature at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her PhD, on Abraham in Islamic literature, was awarded by Tel Aviv University in 2003. As well as publishing on Abraham, she has researched historical periodicity and the evolution of language in Ibn Khaldun’s al-Muqaddima, and the transition from nomad to sedentary life (acculturation) in the Arab world and its reflection in social and cultural life. She also researches Islamic preaching and preachers’ adaptation to globalization. Nimrod Luz is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Western Galilee College, Israel. His areas of research include the relationship between culture, politics, and the built environment, focusing mostly on the Middle East and the Muslim world. He explored urbanism in the premodern Middle East and published several monographs on minority communities in Israel as well as numerous articles in Middle Eastern and geographical journals. He has held several research posts in Indiana University South Bend and the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. His latest project, “Enchanted Places in the Margins,” focuses on the politics of sacred places among Palestinian communities in Israel. Ulrika Mårtensson is a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, where she teaches Religious Studies, including religion and globalization. Her main work focuses on relations between social institutions and Islam in medieval and contemporary contexts. Her recent works include Tabari (2009, in the series Makers of Islamic Civilization), and she has recently co-edited Fundamentalism in the Modern World (2 volumes,
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