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xi, 263 pages : ill. ; 24 cm. Islamic myth and memories facing the challenge of globalization / Itzchak Weismann, Mark Sedgwick and Ulrika Mårtensson -- 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 Mårtensson -- 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 Ådna. edited by Itzchak Weismann, Mark Sedgwick, Ulrika Mårtensson. Bibliography: [233]-255. Includes bibliographical references and index. Globalization Religious aspects Islam Islam Historiography Islamic sociology BP190.5.G56 I85 2014 297.27 ISL 9781472411495 (hardcover : alk. paper) 2013051040 DLC 140117 20161019151502.0 18011052 eng