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Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media
Amsterdam; Leiden: Amsterdam University Press; International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) (2006), 20 pp.
"After the events of 9/11, media representations of Muslims in the West—never known for their accuracy—became even more stereotypically negative. Few of us realize, however, the profusion of similar sentiments that existed within Arab Muslim media outlets ten or even fifteen years earlier. Lila
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Social Communication in Religious Traditions of Asia
Deep Insights
Manila: Logos (Divine Word) Publications (2006), 195 pp.
"This book contains the presentations of a Roundtable of invited scholars organized by the FABC-Office of Social Communication (FABC-OSC) October 3-7, 2005 at Assumption University Huamak campus in Bangkok, in cooperation with the Graduate School of Philisophy and Religion of Assumption University a
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The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
New York: Columbia University Press (2006), xiii, 270 pp.
"An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon has become omnipresent in most Middle Eastern cities, punctuating the daily routines of many men and women. Hirschkind shows how sermon tapes have provided one of the means by which Islamic ethical traditions have be
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Promises of (im)mediate Salvation: Islam, Broadcast Media, and the Remaking of Religious Experience in Mali
American Ethnologist, volume 33, issue 2 (2006), pp. 210-229
"In this article, I take the highly successful Muslim preacher Cherif Haidara in Mali as a starting point to explore the conditions that, throughout the contemporary Muslim world, facilitate the rise to prominence of new types of religious leaders, who, by virtue of their media performances and in t
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Der Islam in der Gegenwart
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), 5., aktual. und erw. Aufl., Lizenzausg. (2005), 1064 pp.
The Production of the South African Muslim Book: As a Means of Empowerment and a Source of Identity
In: From Papyrus to Print-Out: The Book in Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Bibliophilia Africana 8 Conference Proceedings, Centre of the Book, Cape Town, 11-14 May 2005
Pretoria; Cape Town: National Library of South Africa, Centre of the Book (2005), pp. 18-47
"South Africa's Muslim community like all its other religious minority communities has been proactive in preserving its religious identity through the formation of a number of institutions. Over the past three centuries the community has occupied itself in not only erecting mosques and building coll
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Muslim Martyrs and Pagan Vampires: Popular Video Films and the Propagation of Religion in Northern Nigeria
Postscripts, volume 1, issue 2-3 (2005), pp. 183-205
"In December 2000 the government of Kano State in Muslim northern Nigeria reintroduced shari’a and established a new board for film and video censorship charged with the responsibility to “sanitize” the video industry and enforce the compliance of video films with moral standards of Islam. Sta
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Beacon of Hatred: Inside Hizballah's Al-Manar Television
Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2004), xviii, 106 pp.
Islam: Zerrbilder und Wirklichkeiten. Die Rezeption des Islam im Westen
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), 5th ext. ed. (2004), 45 pp.
Die politische Dimension der Auslandsberichterstattung. Band 2: Das Nahost- und Islambild der deutschen überregionalen Presse
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2002), 211 pp.
"Die Berichte über die Konflikte in Nah- und Mittelost färben auf die Wahrnehmung des Islam ab - häufig wird er mit Gewalt assoziiert. So fasst Rezensent Volker S. Stahr die keineswegs überraschende These des Islam- und Kommunikationswissenschafters Kai Hafez zusammen, der in einer Langzeitstudi
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Islam im Internet: Neue Formen der Religion im Cyberspace
Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut (2001), [239 pp.]
"Religion im Internet ist ein bisher kaum untersuchtes Phänomen. Dies gilt ohne Zweifel auch für den Bereich des Islams im Internet. In Einzelstudien und einem umfangreichen Katalog wird versucht, erste Ansätze zu formulieren, Theorien zum Verständnis dieses Phänomens zu entwickeln. Themen sind
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Islam and the West in the Mass Media: Fragmented Images in a Globalizing World
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press (2000), xviii, 299 pp.
"This volume presents a range of information and analysis on the difficult relationship between the West and the Islamic world. It examines how the Western media has interpreted and misinterpreted Islam, the Arab world and the countries of the contemporary Middle East." (Publisher description)
New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (1999), ix, 213 pp.
Deutsch-arabischer Mediendialog: 8.-9. Juni 1999 in Rabat/Marokko
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (1999), 40 pp.
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
New York: Vintage Books, Random House, 2nd ed. (1997), lxx, 200 pp.
"This is far more than an analysis of the way the U.S. covers the Islamic world. A penetrating study by a scholar and a humanist it goes much deeper than an examination of what he considers a biased treatment of Islamic news by the American press. Using illustrations from the media, he makes the poi
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Deutsch-arabischer Mediendialog: 3.-6. November 1997 in Heidelberg
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (1997), 38 pp.
Freedom of Expression in Islam
Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society (ITS), revised ed. (1997), xii, 349 pp.
