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Shoah through Muslim Eyes Mehnaz M. Afridi

Shoah through Muslim Eyes By Mehnaz M. Afridi

Shoah through Muslim Eyes by Mehnaz M. Afridi


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Discusses the author's journey with Judaism as a Muslim. Her book is based on the struggle with antisemitism within Muslim communities and her interviews with Shoah survivors. Rejecting polemical myths about the Holocaust and Jews, Afridi offers a new way of creating understanding between the two communities through the acceptance of the enormity of the Shoah.

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Shoah through Muslim Eyes Summary

Shoah through Muslim Eyes by Mehnaz M. Afridi

In Shoah Through Muslim Eyes, the author discusses her journey with Judaism as a Muslim. Her book is based on the struggle with antisemitism within Muslim communities and her interviews with Shoah survivors. Rejecting polemical myths about the Holocaust and Jews, Afridi offers a new way of creating understanding between the two communities through the acceptance the enormity of the Shoah.

Her journey is both personal and academic: the reader can find nuances of her belief in Islam, principles of justice, and the loneliness of such a journey. The chapters discuss the Holocaust and how it was in truth unprecedented, interviews with survivors, antisemitism and Islamophobia, camps in Arab lands, and Islam and memory. Afridi includes newly-uncovered Muslim-Arab narratives that enhance our understanding of the reach of the Holocaust into Muslim lands under the Vichy and Nazi governments.

Shoah through Muslim Eyes Reviews

I just finished reading one of the most profound and important books that I have read in recent years[...] as inspirational as it is informative. - Ron Cornish, Huffington Post blog

About Mehnaz M. Afridi

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.

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

CIN1618113712G
9781618113719
1618113712
Shoah through Muslim Eyes by Mehnaz M. Afridi
Used - Good
Paperback
Academic Studies Press
20170316
240
N/A
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