Khaldoun Samman

Macalester College

Associate Professor, Sociology
Program Director, Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Civilization
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Middle East and Islamic Studies
Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Islamophobia

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The Politics of Fear
Islam and the West
Secularism and Its Discontents
Social Theories

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The Clash of Modernities: The Islamist Challenge to Jewish, Turkish, and Arab Nationalists (2010)

Professor Samman’s latest book, Clash of Modernities: The Islamist Challenge to Jewish, Turkish and Arab...

“The Temporal Template of Tourism: A Comparative Analysis of Epcot Center (Orlando, Florida) and Wadi Rum (Jordan)”, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (2010)

Invisibilizing Palestinians, The Worlds & Knowledges Otherwise Project, Duke University (2010)

Die eurozentrissche Sozialtheorie „kaputtdenken, Globale, multiple und postkoloniale Modernen (2010)

Zionism and the Nationalization of Jerusalem, Macalester International (2009)

“Islam and the Modern Orientalist World-System”, Islam and the Orientalist World-System (2008)

Islam and the Modern Orientalist World-System (with Mazher al-Zo'by) (2008)

Cities of God and Nationalism: Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome as Contested Sacred World Cities (2007)

Far from spawning an age of tolerance, modernity has created the social basis of division...

“Assimilating to Power in Two Different World-Systems: An Analysis of Paul and Herzl”, Journal of World-System Research (2006)

“The Social Origins of Universalistic Monotheism: A Comparative Analysis of Paul and Muhammad”, Journal of Religion and Society (2006)

“Towards a Non-Essentialist Pedagogy of ‘Islam’”, Teaching Theology and Religion (2005)

The Convergence of World Historical Social Science, The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System: Global Processes, Antisystemic Movements, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge (2002)