Terryfying unreason or a model of toleration? Imaginning Islam in fictional travelogues of Václav Matěj Kramerius
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angličtina
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Terryfying unreason or a model of toleration? Imaginning Islam in fictional travelogues of Václav Matěj Kramerius
Original language description
The study deals with Matěj Václav Kramerius (1753-1808), one of the first authors writing in modern Czech, and his reflections on Islam, both as a religion and civilisation. As will be explained, these were strongly based on negative stereotypes and defamatory rhetoric - Kramerius used them to persuade his readers which social practices to imitate and which ones to avoid. Kramerius occupied a central position in a network of intellectuals who tried to produce and spread literature and journalism, in Czech, in small towns of Bohemia and Moravia and in the countryside. Given the popularity of Krameriusʼs fictive travelogues, it seems obvious that they influenced ways in which members of an emerging Czech national movement related themselves to the 'Non-European Other', and created, by so doing, new cultural identities. The study analyses Krameriusʼs knowledge of the Qur'an, the life and normative teachings of Muhammad, as well as his stereotypical attitude to themes such as religious violence, a purported lack of rationality, superstition, and religious zealotry. We shall also focus on certain anti- Muslim rhetorical strategies that Kramerius used to appeal to the feelings of his readers.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Egypt and the Orient: The Current Research
ISBN
978-1-78969-764-3
Number of pages of the result
10
Pages from-to
29-38
Number of pages of the book
418
Publisher name
Archaeopress Publishing
Place of publication
Oxford
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