Islam and Globalisation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: Proceedings of the 25th Congress of L'Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta)

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 25th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (Naples, September 8-12, 2010) on Islam and Globalisation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Besides a general view on globalisation (Agostino Cilardo) and the history of the Union on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary (Urbain Vermeulen), the contributions concern History (Axel Havemann, Pasquale Macaluso, Antonino Pellitteri, Maria Giovanna Stasolla, Maria Vidyasova), Islam (Roswitha Badry, Marek M. Dziekan, Dmitry Frolov, Chistopher Melchert, Katarzyna Pachniak, Orsolya Varsanyi), Islamic Law (Maria Arcas Campoy, Reiner Brunner, Ana Maria Carballeira Debasa & Camilo Alvarez De Morales, Agostino Cilardo, Vasco Fronzoni, Wilferd Madelung), Literature & Linguistics (Abdessamad Belhaj, Julia Bray, Helene Condylis, Francesca Maria Corrao, Adelya Gaynutdinova, Ali Kadem Kalati, Vladimir Lebedev, Ewa Machut-Mendecka, Mariangela Masullo, Barbara Michalak-Pikulska, Christina Ossipova, Arie Schippers, Krystyna Skarzynska-Bochenska, Ludmila Torlakova, Urbain Vermeulen, Monika Winet), Travel (Oriana Capezio, Roberta Denaro, Maria Grazia Sciortino, Richard Van Leeuwen), Philosophy & Science (Carmela Baffioni, Daniel De Smet, Montse Diaz-Fajardo, Paulina B. Lewicka, Miklos Maroth, Juan Martos Quesada & Maria del Carmen Escribano Rodenas, Antonella Straface, Johannes Thomann), Art (Vincenza Grassi, Eva-Maria von Kemnitz).