Mehnaz M. Afridi

Shoah through Muslim Eyes (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume discusses a Muslim's perspective on the Holocaust and antisemitism. It offers an honest and comprehensive interpretation of Jewish-Muslim relations in contemporary times. Afridi brings to light the enormity of the Holocaust for the world and in particular the Muslim reader. Mehnaz M. Afridi earned her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of South Africa. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College (Riverdale, NY). Her research interests include the Holocaust; interreligious identity; post-genocide identity; Diaspora and Transnational Studies; and feminist post-colonial theory. Her publications and presentations have focused on the Qur'an and human rights, Islamic Literature and Culture; Judaism & Islam, Holocaust and antisemitism, including her co-edited book, Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk: Existentialism and Politics (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012). She received a National Endowment for Humanities Institute Grant in 2006 to study 'Venice, the Jews, and Italian Culture: Historical Eras and Cultural Representations'; a Coolidge Fellow Grant from Union Theological School in 2003; and attended the Hess Seminar on 'Teaching Testimony and Holocaust' at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011. She has been a Board Member of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics since 2004.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618113658
• Artikelnr.: 56998695

Autorenporträt

Mehnaz M. Afridi earned her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of South Africa. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College (Riverdale, NY). Her research interests include the Holocaust; interreligious identity; post-genocide identity; Diaspora and Transnational Studies; and feminist post-colonial theory. Her publications and presentations have focused on the Qur¿an and human rights, Islamic Literature and Culture; Judaism & Islam, Holocaust and antisemitism, including her co-edited book, Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk: Existentialism and Politics (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012). She received a National Endowment for Humanities Institute Grant in 2006 to study "Venice, the Jews, and Italian Culture: Historical Eras and Cultural Representations"; a Coolidge Fellow Grant from Union Theological School in 2003; and attended the Hess Seminar on "Teaching Testimony and Holocaust" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011. She has been a Board Member of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics since 2004.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Why the Shoah?
Chapter Two: My Journey through Academia, Jerusalem, and Dachau
Chapter Three: Why is the Shoah Unprecedented?
Chapter Four: The Document
Chapter Five: Is Islam Antisemitic? No.
Chapter Six: Muslims and the Memory of a Colonial Holocaust
Conclusion
Afterword
Bibliography
Index