Zayde Antrim
Autor de Mapping the Middle East
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Zayde Antrim is an Associate Professor of History and International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
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- 2
- Miembros
- 23
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- 3.0
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- 1
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- 6
By closely reading and analyzing these works, Antrim argues that their authors imagined plots of land primarily as homes, cities, and regions and associated them with a range of claims to religious and political authority. She contends that these are evidence of the powerful ways in which the geographical imagination was tapped to declare loyalty and invoke belonging in the early Islamic world, reinforcing the importance of the earliest regional mapping tradition in the Islamic world.
Routes and Realms challenges a widespread tendency to underestimate the importance of territory and to over-emphasize the importance of religion and family to notions of community and belonging among Muslims and Arabs, both in the past and today.… (más)