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Análise Social
versão impressa ISSN 0003-2573
Anál. Social n.173 Lisboa 2005
Os Taliban, Bamiyan e Nós: o Outro islâmico**
Jack Goody*
Résumé
Les Taliban, Bamiyan et Nous: lAutre islamique
Larticle se penche sur les représentations que lOccident se fait de lIslam, en prenant comme référence la destruction par les Taliban des statues géantes de Bouddha à Bamiyan, en Afghanistan. Cet acte, envisagé comme une preuve de lextrême fanatisme du mouvement, est placé dans le contexte des attitudes de condamnation dimages présentes au coeur de différentes religions le Judaïsme, le Christianisme protestant, le Bouddhisme lui-même, les religions africaines ou didéologies laïques puritaines, comme celles qui ont conduit à certains actes de vandalisme commis pendant la Révolution Française. Lauteur montre que cet événement, loin dêtre exceptionnel et propre des islamistes, sinsère dans un ensemble dat-titudes puritaines iconoclastes qui ont accompagné lhistoire de bon nombre de sociétés, y compris la société occidentale.
Abstract
The Taliban, the Bamiyan and Us: the Islamic Other
This article addresses current Western representations of Islam, taking as its point of reference the Talibans destruction of the giant Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. The author places this event, which has been seen as proof of that movements extremist fanaticism, in the context of attitudes condemning images in several religions Judaism, Protestant Christianity, Buddhism itself, African religions and in secular puritan ideologies such as those which led to the vandalism during the French Revolution. The author shows how this act, far from being something exceptional and characteristic of Islamites, belongs to a set of iconoclastic puritanical attitudes which feature in the history of many societies, including Western society.
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* Universidade de Cambridge, St. John's College.
** Este texto foi apresentado no Colóquio Europa-Islão, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Abril de 2003, e posteriormente publicado num capítulo do livro Islam in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2003).