What is it about?
Sean Oliver-Dee explores in this article the changing attitudes to, and perceptions of Islam that developed over a period in which substantive engagements between Anglo-American strategic interests brought them more and more into contact with Muslim majority governments and cultures.
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Why is it important?
The article’s originality lies in the methodological approach of examining US-British policymaker’s perceptions of Islam based upon their experiences. In so doing, the article offers an approach to West-Islam relational debates that avoids critiquing the validity of the observations and instead deepens our understandings of where the perceptions came from as a basis for improved dialogues in the future.
Perspectives
The key finding is the extent to which perceptions of Islam and Muslims were government not just by the nature of the incidents and issues that politicians and officials were dealing with, but also by the shifting cultural shifts taking place in America and Britain.
Prof Abdallah El Khatib EiC Journal of college of Sharia and Islamic Studies A. Qatar University
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This page is a summary of: Courting Islam: The Evolution of Perceptions of Islam within the British and American governments from the European Colonial period to the War on Terror, Journal of College of Sharia & Islamic Studies, June 2021, Qatar University,
DOI: 10.29117/jcsis.2021.0291.
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