Islamofascism: Four Avenues to the Use of an Epithet

In this paper I want to reconstruct the genealogy of relating Islam to fascism and fascism to Islam by assembling evidence from Western discourses. Such a reconstruction of course suffers from the fact that it has to draw a picture based solely on a collection of idiographic interpretations. The res...

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Main Author: Schulze, Reinhard (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2012
In: Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2012, Volume: 52, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 290-330
Further subjects:B Europe United States Western discourses polemics Islam fascism Nazism “Islamofascism” epithet explanans
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