Toral-Niehoff Isabel, Al-Ḥīra. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2014, xviii + 251 p.

It is only in recent decades that the word “Arab” has become synonymous with the word “Muslim” in popular discourse. Indeed when Arabs first started immigrating to the United States in large numbers in the early 20th century, being Christian – in addition to being wealthy relative to other immigran...

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Autore principale: Talib, Adam
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Français
Pubblicazione: Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée 2015
Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto:It is only in recent decades that the word “Arab” has become synonymous with the word “Muslim” in popular discourse. Indeed when Arabs first started immigrating to the United States in large numbers in the early 20th century, being Christian – in addition to being wealthy relative to other immigrants – allowed them to lobby successfully to be classed as “White” in the census. Now, however, as Islamophobia in countries like France and the United States reaches pandemic propo...