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The world of kebab. Arabs and gastronomy in Warsaw
(Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, 2011)
This essay is a result of fieldwork carried out by me between April and August 2011 in various restaurants serving Arabic food in Warsaw. It is based on 30 indepth interviews not only with the owners of venues, but also ...
Muslims in Europe: different communities, one discourse? Adding the Central and Eastern European perspective
(Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, 2011)
There is an old Polish saying, “każda pliszka swój ogonek chwali”1 meaning that everyone emphasizes their good points. Being a representative of a country of approximately 40 thousand Muslims (for around 38 million citizens) ...
Literature of the Polish Tatars
(Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, 2011)
The literature of Polish Tatars reflects their complicated history. A specific trait of the PolishLithuanianBelarusian Tatar population is their use of Arabic script for the notation of their Slavic language as early as ...
La Tunisie musulmane, pays à un riche passé chrétien et un présent tolérant
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1996)
En avril 1996 le pape Jean Paul II a effectué une visite officielle en Tunisie. Après le Maroc, la Tunisie a été le deuxième pays de l’Afrique du Nord où s’est rendu le Souverain Pontife. Dans son discours devant le pape, ...
Muslims in Poland and Eastern Europe. Widening the European Discourse on Islam
(Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, 2011)
This book aims to fill this gap by describing Muslim communities and their experiences in Central and Eastern Europe, both in countries with marginal Muslim populations, often not exceeding 1% (e.g. Hungary and Lithuania), ...
Integration and separatism. A sociopolitical study of the Thai government policy to the Muslim South
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2003)
Southern Thailand has a Muslim population with a 200 year history of separatism and evolving relations with the central government. This paper refers to Southern Thailand as the five provinces of Songkhala, Satun, Yala, ...
Islamic political movement in Malaysia
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2004)
The global revival of Islam that began in the early 1970s has been widely discussed. The resurgence of Islam has predominantly been a political phenomenon that emerged when the existing social and political agenda of ...
An Alternative Insight into the First Centuries of Islam on the Iberian Peninsula – Problems of Historiographic Sources Concerning the Early Islamic History of Al-Andalus
(Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa, 2012)
The stream of historical revisionism within the Orientalist scholarship has offered in recent years a number of intriguing theories attempting to undermine some of the conventional concepts of the Arab-Muslim early history ...
The Nile River in Muslim Geographical Sources
(Katedra Arabistyki i Islamistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2004)
The Arab Egyptians usually call this river Baḥr an-Nīl (The Sea of Nile). Travelers from other Islamic regions also adopted this name apparently because of its great length and width. Although the name An-Nīl does not ...