Islamic myths and memories : mediators of globalization - Weismann, Itzchak; Sedgwick, Mark J.; Martensson, Ulrika (Farnham Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014)
Islamic myth and memories facing the challenge of globalization / Itzchak Weismann, Mark Sedgwick and Ulrika Martensson -- Modern and Islamic icons in Arab-Islamic popular historical memory / Mark Sedgwick -- The Ottoman Empire as harmonious utopia: a historical myth and its function / Martin Riexinger -- From a Red Guard to a jahrinya: a Chinese author's return to Islam / Xiaofei Tu -- Satan and the temptation of state power: medieval Islamic myth in global society / Ulrika Martensson -- The glocalization of al-Haram al-Sharif: designing memory, mystifying place / Nimrod Luz -- The myth of permanent departure: Sufis in a new (age) global (dis)order / Itzchak Weismann -- Shaykh Osama bin Laden: an evolving global myth / Anne Birgitta Nilsen -- The post-modern reconstitution of an Islamic memory: theory and practice in the case of Yusuf al-Qaradawi's virtual umma / Uriya Shavit -- The rating of Allah: the renaissance of preaching in the age of globalization / Shosh Ben-Ari -- The reception of Islamic prophet stories within Muslim communities in Norway and Germany / Gerd Marie Adna.
Keywords: Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Islam -- Historiography; Islamic sociology