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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: l’Autre islamique

L’article se penche sur les représentations que l’Occident se fait de l’Islam, 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 l’extrême fanatisme du mouvement, est placé dans le contexte des attitudes de condamnation d’images présentes au coeur de différentes religions — le Judaïsme, le Christianisme protestant, le Bouddhisme lui-même, les religions africaines — ou d’idéologies laïques puritaines, comme celles qui ont conduit à certains actes de vandalisme commis pendant la Révolution Française. L’auteur montre que cet événement, loin d’être exceptionnel et propre des islamistes, s’insère dans un ensemble d’at-titudes puritaines iconoclastes qui ont accompagné l’histoire 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 Taliban’s destruction of the giant Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. The author places this event, which has been seen as proof of that movement’s 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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REFERÊNCIAS BIBLIOGRAFICAS

 

BRINKLER, H. (2001), "Early buddhist art in China", in L. Michel (ed.), The Return of the Buddha: the Qingshou Discoveries, Londres, Royal Academy of Arts.         [ Links ]

BRION, M. (1996), Les peintres de Dieu, Paris.         [ Links ]

GOODY, J. (1997), Representations and Contradictions: Ambivalence towards Images, Theatre, Fiction, Relics and Sexuality, Oxford, Oxford University Press.         [ Links ]

GOODY, J. (2003), Islam in Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.         [ Links ]

 

* 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).

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