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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454304003321

Autore

Elgamri Elzain

Titolo

Islam in the British broadsheets [[electronic resource] ] : the impact of orientalism on representations of Islam in the British press / / Elzain Elgamri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reading, UK, : Ithaca Press, 2008

ISBN

0-86372-530-9

1-281-98852-9

9786611988524

1-4416-0025-6

0-86372-360-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

070.449297

Soggetti

British newspapers - Religious aspects

Islam in mass media

Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Mass media and the war

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in mass media

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Background; Part One; 1 Islam and the Christian West: historical background; 2 Islam and Islamic fundamentalism in Western discourses; Part Two; 3 Analysing discourse: theoretical and methodological issues; 4 The Rushdie affair; 5 The rise of the Taliban movement to power; 6 The Luxor massacre of foreign tourists; 7 The September 11th attacks; Part Three; 8 Findings and conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

From the late Ayatollah Khomeini''s fatwa against Salman Rushdie, to the extremism of the Taliban and the mass murder of the September 11th attacks, the image of Islam as a violent and anti-Western faith has featured dominantly in the global mass media. In this book, Elzain Elgamri sets out to refute such generalisations. Taking into account the historically conditioned Orientalist discourses, in light of the polarized



relationship between Islam and the West, and deconstructing what has actually been reported in the British quality press, he argues that what has actually been journalistically