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Covering Islam : how the media and the experts determine how we see the rest of the world /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Said, Edward W. (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 1997.
Edition:Revised edition, first Vintage books edition.
Series:Middle Eastern studies / Current affairs
Subjects:
Islam > Public opinion.
Public opinion > United States.
Public opinion > Europe.
HISTORY > World.
Public opinion.
Europe.
United States.
Islam
Öffentliche Meinung
Westliche Welt
Massamedia.
Publieke opinie.
Islam.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter one: Islam as news
  • I Islam and the West
  • II Communities of interpretation
  • III The Princess episode in context
  • Chapter two: The Iran story
  • I Holy war
  • II The Loss of Iran
  • Unexamined and hidden assumptions
  • IV Another country
  • Chapter three: Knowledge and power
  • I The Politics of interpreting Islam: Orthodox and antithetical knowledge
  • II Knowledge and interpretation.