Unformatted text preview: • Semites and Berbers • Arabic and Hebrew (Semite) • Berber in Atlas Mts. & Sahara • Persians and Kurds o Indo-European languages • Persian in Iran • Kurdish in northern Iraq, NW Iran, eastern Turkey • The Turkish Imprint • Altaic language: more o Turkic speakers in Central Asia o Islamic Internationalism • Islamic communities well-established in central China, European Russia, central Africa, southern Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, elsewhere • Muslim congregations expanding in urban areas of western Europe and North America o Globalization and Cultural Change • Global economy is having impact on traditional cultural values o Fundamentalism a reaction • Access to satellite TV, cellular phones, the internet bring global culture to the region...
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- Spring '08
- Whitmore
- Geography, Islam, Ottoman Empire, traditional cultural values, Make religious pilgrimage, Islamic Theocracy
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