OUR AMERICA AND THE ISLAM: THE LOOK IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM

Abstract

"Eastern history, having barely begun to be written in a critical key, has already given rise to theory and bloody polemic", says the Argentinean historian Hernán G. H. Taboada, who explores in this essay some dimensions of a contemporary, alternative vision of Islam that has been constructed in Our America, outside the influence of the Euronorthamerican model. The most original valuation of this culture has been born, according to the author, from popular re-elaborations of Latin Americans of Arab origin, from some of their literary developments, and from their own propaganda.