Jews and Muslims in South Asia : Reflections on Difference, Religion, and Race

Yulia Egorova

ISBN 10: 0199859973 / ISBN 13: 9780199859979

Editore: Oxford University Press, 2018

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In this book, Yulia Egorova explores how South Asian Jews and Muslims relate to each other outside of a Western and Christian context, and reveals that despite some important differences, the relationship is still intrinsically connected to global narratives about Jews and Muslims. She also shows how the Hindu right have turned the South Asian Jewish experience into a rhetorical tool to deny the existence of discrimination against religious minorities, and how this ostensible celebration of Jewishness masks both anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish prejudice. Jews and Muslims in South Asia is a fascinating new contribution to the academic discussion of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and their overlapping histories.

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• Titolo: Jews and Muslims in South Asia : Reflections on Difference, Religion, and Race
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199859973
• ISBN 13: 9780199859979
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 210 L x 140 A x 12 P (millimetri) 210 millimetri di larghezza per 140 millimetri di altezza per 12 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 292 grammi

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Riassunto

Jews and Muslims in South Asia examines how Jews and Muslims relate to each other in a place where, in contrast to Europe, their perceived attitudes towards one another do not often make headlines. In the European imagination, Jews and Muslims have both been seen as the ultimate "other." At the same time, Western politics and media construct Jews and Muslims in opposition to each other and see their relationship as unavoidably polarized due to the conflict in the Middle East. In this book, Yulia Egorova explores how South Asian Jews and Muslims relate to each other outside of a Western and Christian context, and reveals that despite some important differences this relationship is still intrinsically connected to global narratives about Jews and Muslims. She also shows that the Hindu right have turned South Asian Jewish experiences into a rhetorical tool to deny the existence of discrimination against religious minorities, and that this ostensible celebration of Jewishness masks not only anti-Muslim, but also anti-Jewish prejudice. She argues that South Asia inherited these notions of racial and religious difference from the British during the colonial period, which continue to cause stigmatization and oppression to this day. Jews and Muslims in South Asia is a fascinating new contribution to the academic discussion on anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and their overlapping histories.

Informazioni sull?autore

Yulia Egorova is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Durham University, UK.