Abstract

SILVA, Maria Cardeira da. O sentido dos árabes no nosso sentido: Dos estudos sobre árabes e sobre muçulmanos em Portugal. Anál. Social [online]. 2005, n.173, pp.781-806. ISSN 0003-2573.

Without seeking to conduct an exhaustive analysis of the field of studies on Arabs and Muslims in Portugal - which only now are being undertaken -, this article seeks to monitor the political uses which have moulded that field over time. Traditionally associated with ethno-genetic concerns and archaeology, studies on Arabs and Islam today continue to inspire the persistent and widely disseminated myth of multicultural/luso-tropicalist tolerance (in an Islamophile version of Orientalism) - for example by way of that which is here described as the «Mértola effect» - atavistically celebrated in the ethno-genealogy of the Portuguese.

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