A (short) history of the clash of civilizations

Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin

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“…The alternative discourse presented in this study-alternative in its inclusion of the lived experience of Muslim American students and their professors-calls to question the dominant discourse construction (Adib-Moghaddam, 2008;Ahmad, 2011;Barber, 1996;Fukuyama, 1992;Huntington, 1993Huntington, , 1996Qutb, 1951) of Islam and democracy as a dichotomy. Specifically, the shared values of equality, respect for others, freedom, human rights, and an emphasis on education contrast with the writings of Huntington (1993Huntington ( , 1996, Adib-Moghaddam (2008), Barber (1996), andFukuyama (1992), who, viewing Islam as rigid and neglectful of human rights, found no link between Islam and democracy, specifically the democracy enacted in the U.S.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…What is an "American lifestyle"? This experience, as well as prominent discourses in mass media (Cesari, 2004;Khan, 2006;Muedini, 2009;Peek, 2005;Swaine, 2009) and sections of academia (Adib-Moghaddam, 2008;Barber, 1996;Fukuyama, 1992;Huntington, 1993Huntington, , 1996 that outlined the incompatibility of Islam and democracy further inspired her to perform this study. 4.…”

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Muslim American University Students’ Perceptions of Islam and Democracy: Deconstructing the Dichotomy

Lamont

Collet

2013

Equity & Excellence in Education

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The aftermath of 9/11 and the current surge of revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East have caused Muslim Americans to be either demonized or forgotten altogether, despite the significance of their everyday navigation of both Islamic and democratic values and unique efforts toward identity construction. The neglect of the Muslim American individual experience in the dominant discourse on Islam and democracy has stifled the voices of members of this marginalized population, thereby limiting their self-representation. Through the use of a phenomenological framework and Critical Discourse Analysis, this study complicates the dominant discourses on Islam and democracy by shedding light on the lived experiences of seven Muslim American university students and providing supplemental perspectives from their university professors. These participants constructed an alternative discourse that positioned the Islamic and democratic values of equality, respect, freedom, and education as compatible, albeit with some complications. The article concludes with suggestions toward better understanding and enactment of Islamic and democratic values, including attaining education and engaging in civic participation.

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Muslim American University Students’ Perceptions of Islam and Democracy: Deconstructing the Dichotomy

Lamont

Collet

2013

Equity & Excellence in Education

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“…In arguing along such lines, my position should be differentiated from the “clash thesis” as articulated by contemporary neo‐Medievalists such as Orientalist Bernard Lewis, and international relations theorist Samuel Huntington. Numerous attempts have been made to debunk this thesis by pointing to a complex long‐durée history of interaction and engagement between Western Christian and Muslim polities that has taken various forms, some of them hostile and others marked by more conciliatory if not convivial relations (Blanks and Frassetto ; Adib‐Moghaddem ; Quinn ; Tolan ). The clash thesis, in crude, transhistorical form pointing to a metaphysical condition—what some have referred to as a “cosmic war”—is a naturalizing/de‐politicizing position founded on an erasure of historical realities in pursuit of a political agenda.…”

Section: The Entangled Apocalypticism Of Apocalyptic Ai (Aai)mentioning

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“…However, drawing on the seminal work of Norman Daniel (), Tomaz Mastnak (, , , , , ), Luna Nájera (), Pierre‐Alexandre Cardinal and Frédéric Mégret (), and others, I want to suggest that the thesis, reinterpreted as shorthand for a contingent yet historically sedimented long‐durée dispositional bias manifesting structurally and systemically is, in fact, well‐founded, and that anti‐Islam(ism), as an ontological background horizon, remains operative, periodically erupting under certain conditions—for example, nineteenth‐century Orientalism and contemporary Islamophobia (Feldman and Medevoi , 1; Ali ). Crucially, according to Arshin Adib‐Moghaddem (), this clash is arguably a “competition over history and temporal sequences of humanity” (220), an issue of fundamental relevance to Apocalyptic AI in terms of its fundamentally futurist orientation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“White Crisis” and/as “Existential Risk,” or the Entangled Apocalypticism of Artificial Intelligence

Ali¹

2019

Zygon

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In this article, I present a critique of Robert Geraci's Apocalyptic artificial intelligence (AI) discourse, drawing attention to certain shortcomings which become apparent when the analytical lens shifts from religion to the race–religion nexus. Building on earlier work, I explore the phenomenon of existential risk associated with Apocalyptic AI in relation to “White Crisis,” a modern racial phenomenon with premodern religious origins. Adopting a critical race theoretical and decolonial perspective, I argue that all three phenomena are entangled and they should be understood as a strategy, albeit perhaps merely rhetorical, for maintaining white hegemony under nonwhite contestation. I further suggest that this claim can be shown to be supported by the disclosure of continuity through change in the long‐durée entanglement of race and religion associated with the establishment, maintenance, expansion, and refinement of the modern/colonial world system if and when such phenomena are understood as iterative shifts in a programmatic trajectory of domination which might usefully be framed as “algorithmic racism.”

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“…Orientalism as a 'disciplinary regime' or a 'regime of truth' was characteristically racist and patronising. 9 At the same time, it was ideologically-motivated and intimately intertwined with the imposition of imperial power by offering ideological justification for it. 10 As such, Orientalism was not restricted to scholarsexplorers, administrators and missionaries also participated in the discourse.…”

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The Persian–Portuguese Encounter in Hormuz: Orientalism Reconsidered

Tazmini¹

2017

Iranian Stud.

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In 2015, the quincentennial commemoration of the Portuguese arrival on the island of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf (1515-1622) revealed the underlying presupposition among Iranians that the Portuguese presence on the island was the harbinger of a long-term pattern of Western imperialism. This analysis questions the accuracy of this narrative by advancing a new interpretative framework that does not reduce the holding of Hormuz to simply another dark episode of European colonial history. Circumscribed and limited in aim and reach, Lusitanian activities on Hormuz cannot be brought under the generic rubric of "Orientalism", which is embedded in European colonial tradition, and which by extension, buttresses Iranian nationalist sentiment about the Persian-Portuguese entanglement. My research demonstrates that Portuguese objectives diverged from the 18 th and 19 th century rationalist scientific traditions of the British, French and Germans professing a civilising mission as a rationale for colonial policies. Whereas the Portuguese operated from a worldview that combined profit, dynastic pride, and religious rhetoric the Portuguese mission to Hormuz was not guided by a grand discourse of civilising the "other". While there was a complex interplay of commercial interests and brutal methods on this strategic êntrepot, Portuguese ambitions in Hormuz were confined and elusive, and at best a matter of tribute-taking. The present paper charters some of these complex interactions.

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A (short) history of the clash of civilizations

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Muslim American University Students’ Perceptions of Islam and Democracy: Deconstructing the Dichotomy

Muslim American University Students’ Perceptions of Islam and Democracy: Deconstructing the Dichotomy

“White Crisis” and/as “Existential Risk,” or the Entangled Apocalypticism of Artificial Intelligence

The Persian–Portuguese Encounter in Hormuz: Orientalism Reconsidered

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