<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Harold Schiffman</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hfsclpp@gmail.com">hfsclpp@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:12 AM<br>Subject: [lg policy] Fwd: Auto-discard notification<br>To: lp <<a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu">lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><br><br> Forwarded From: Tristan Mabry <<a href="mailto:mabryt@mac.com" target="_blank">mabryt@mac.com</a>><br><br><br>Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:42:35 -0700<br><br>New Book: 'Nationalism, Language, and Muslim Exceptionalism'<br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Dear Colleagues,</span><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">I have just published a book with the University of Pennsylvania Press that may be of interest to the community regarding nationalism, language politics, and Islamism. Promo copy from the publisher is below.</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Many thanks,</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Tristan</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Tristan James Mabry, PhD</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Department of National Security Affairs</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Naval Postgraduate School</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Monterey, CA 93943</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><a href="mailto:tjmabry@nps.edu" target="_blank">tjmabry@nps.edu</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><a href="tel:831-915-7491" value="+18319157491" target="_blank">831-915-7491</a></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">=================================</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><b><i>Nationalism, Language, and Muslim Exceptionalism</i></b></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Tristan James Mabry</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">University of Pennsylvania Press<br>312 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. <br><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><b>"An entirely original and important contribution to the study of nationalism, this book brings together a broad range of ideas about ethnicity, language, and religion and deftly weaves together an elegant theory that not only explains why some Muslim societies choose to turn toward or away from fundamentalism but what to do about it."—John A. Hall, James McGill Professor in Sociology, McGill University<br></b><br>In an era of ethnopolitical conflict and constitutional change worldwide, nationalist and Islamist movements are two of the most powerful forces in global politics. However, the respective roles played by nationalism and Islamism in Muslim separatist movements have until recently been poorly understood. The conventional view foregrounds Muslim exceptionalism, which suggests that allegiance to the nation of Islam trumps ethnic or national identity. But as Tristan James Mabry shows, language can be a far more reliable indicator of a Muslim community's commitment to nationalist or Islamist struggles.<br><br>Drawing on fieldwork in Iraq, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines, <i>Nationalism, Language, and Muslim Exceptionalism</i> examines and compares the ethnopolitical identity of six Muslim separatist movements. There are variations in secularism and ethnonationalism among the cases, but the key factor is the presence or absence of a vernacular print culture—a social cement that binds a literate population together as a national group. Mabry shows that a strong print culture correlates with a strong ethnonational identity, and a strong ethnonational identity correlates with a conspicuous absence of Islamism. Thus, Islamism functions less as an incitement, more as an opportunistic pull with greater influence when citizens do not have a strong ethnonational bond. An innovative perspective firmly grounded in empirical research, <i>Nationalism, Language, and Muslim Exceptionalism</i> has important implications for scholars and policymakers alike.</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15372.html" target="_blank">http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15372.html</a></span></font></div><div><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;text-align:-webkit-auto;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">=================================</span></font></div></div></div></span></div></div></span></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br>
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<br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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