{"id":2423,"date":"2018-04-20T17:01:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T21:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2018-05-16T08:43:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T12:43:22","slug":"new-arrivals-april-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/new-arrivals-april-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"New arrivals April 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Mason. Investigating Turkey: detective fiction and Turkish nationalism, 1928-1945<\/em><\/a><\/h1>\n

Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2017. 180 pages<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This unique interpretive study seeks to examine aspects of the building of the modern Turkish Nation. In particular the transmission of Kemalist Turkish Nationalism at the level of popular detective fiction. (Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1939) \u2013 Military\/Political leader; First President of Turkey). Mason argues that nationalist concepts and ideas were disseminated through the medium of this literature. After introducing the genre of detective fiction, the works of five Turkish authors are analysed and found to promote such Kemalist concepts as: 1) Hardwork or Industrious; 2) Physically fit; 3) Feminist in perspective (All Turks are to participate in the nation); 4) Rationalist; and 5) Patriotic. The book represents an approach to cultural historical studies in which publications are viewed as \u2018events.\u2019 These \u2018events\u2019 provide access to a cross section of Turkish society including values, mores and the worldview of regular citizens, or at least, attempts to shape and direct popular beliefs about what it means to be a Turk under Ataturk\u2019s vision of the Turkish Republic.<\/p>\n

David Mason 1971-2017 completed his PhD (2011) at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. He was a friend and colleague.<\/p>\n

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Peter Schadler. John of Damascus and Islam: Christian heresiology and the intellectual background to earliest Christian-Muslim relations<\/em><\/a><\/h1>\n

Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018. 264 pages<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>John of Damascus and Islam<\/em> is the 34th<\/sup> volume in Brill\u2019s series on the History of Christian-Muslim relations. A summary from the back cover: How did Islam come to be considered a Christian heresy? In this book, Peter Schadler outlines the intellectual background of the Christian Near East that led John, a Christian serving in the Damascus court of the caliph Abd al-Malik (685-705), to categorize Islam as a heresy. Schadler shows that different uses of the term heresy persisted among Christians, and then demonstrates that John\u2019s assessment of the beliefs and practices of Muslims has been mistakenly dismissed on assumptions he was highly biased. By analyzing John of Damascus\u2019 small work entitled \u2018On Heresies 100\u2019, Schadler proposes that the practices and beliefs John ascribes to Islam have analogues in the Islamic tradition, proving that John may well represent an accurate picture of Islam as he knew it in the seventh and eighth centuries in Syria and Palestine.<\/p>\n

Schadler also includes the Greek text and English translation of \u2018On Heresies 100\u2019, which was part of John of Damascus\u2019 larger work on heresies and offers an insightful tabulation of potential Qur\u2019anic references in \u2018On Heresies 100\u2019. Schadler\u2019s work is an important offering on the nascent relations between Christians and Muslims.<\/p>\n

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