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Imagining an Islamic Civilizational Identity (Q&A): Geraldine Heng, Nov. 2012

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Sex, Lies, and Paradise: The Assassins, Prester John, and the Fabulation of Civilizational Identities. The Assassins of Alamut are presented in popular media and academic studies as the 11th century forerunners of today's suicide terrorists. Visiting Winton Professor Geraldine Heng analyzes these stories to see how the Assassins were believed to anticipate an Islamic paradise in the afterlife and came to represent for the West a volatile nexus of sex and violence. Heng examines in particular how two popular, widely circulating European texts—Marco Polo's Travels and Mandeville's Travels—were key in shaping Western understanding of Islamic history in terms of a civilizational identity that clashes with that of the Christian West. Cosponsored by College of Liberal Arts, French & Italian.
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  1. Sexuality, Violence And The Afterlife
  2. The Assassins Of Alamut As Suicide Terrorism
  3. Western Imagination Of Islamic History And Civilizational Identity

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