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  • 6 - Religion and Ethnicity

  • Enam Al-Wer, University of Essex, Uri Horesh, Bruno Herin, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, Rudolf De Jong, Universiteit Leiden
  • Book:
    Arabic Sociolinguistics
    Published online:
    01 July 2022
    Print publication:
    07 July 2022, pp 106-130

  • Summary

    The chapter focuses on religious and ethnic affiliation as social factors that influence the structure of variation in several Arabic-speaking communities. We go beyond the simplistic correlations between religious/ethnic groupings and language, and seek to uncover the histories and social meanings of variation based on such groupings. We include examples, both old and new, to illustrate variation according to these factors.

  • 6 - Lords of the Auspicious Conjunction

  • from Part III - The Islamic Cultural–Historical Community
  • Hendrik Spruyt, Northwestern University, Illinois
  • Book:
    The World Imagined
    Published online:
    18 June 2020
    Print publication:
    02 July 2020, pp 167-213

  • Summary

    In the Islamic Ecumene shared religious principles intertwined with other foundational beliefs, which harkened back to the Turkic-Mongol tradition of the Islamic empires, providing cultural unity. The Islamic World constituted an international society despite the absence of a clear hegemonic power. Institutions, laws, and collective beliefs embodied in everyday practices, rituals, and even the design of buildings and cities provided unity in a heterogeneous and diverse Islamic ecumene.