Terryfying unreason or a model of toleration? Imaginning Islam in fictional travelogues of Václav Matěj Kramerius

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Terryfying unreason or a model of toleration? Imaginning Islam in fictional travelogues of Václav Matěj Kramerius

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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 &apos;Non-European Other&apos;, and created, by so doing, new cultural identities. The study analyses Krameriusʼs knowledge of the Qur&apos;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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Terryfying unreason or a model of toleration? Imaginning Islam in fictional travelogues of Václav Matěj Kramerius

Popis výsledku anglicky

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 &apos;Non-European Other&apos;, and created, by so doing, new cultural identities. The study analyses Krameriusʼs knowledge of the Qur&apos;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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Egypt and the Orient: The Current Research

ISBN

978-1-78969-764-3

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

29-38

Počet stran knihy

418

Název nakladatele

Archaeopress Publishing

Místo vydání

Oxford

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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