[455] “MTSU ON THE RECORD” EXAMINES ISLAM’S INFLUENCE ON WEST

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 5, 2009
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081; WMOT-FM, 615-898-2800

“MTSU ON THE RECORD” EXAMINES ISLAM’S INFLUENCE ON WEST
How Europeans, Americans See Themselves in Relation to Muslim World

(MURFREESBORO) – Dr. Sean Foley, assistant professor of history, discusses how Islamic ideas sparked major social reform at three critical turning points in history at 7 a.m. this Sunday, May 10, on “MTSU on the Record” with host Gina Logue on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).
In January, Foley lectured at American University in Beirut about how Reformation leaders saw Islam as an omen of God’s displeasure with the Catholic Church; how the rise of European nationalism in the 16th and 17th centuries was linked to how nations defined themselves vis-à-vis the Muslim world; and how Thomas Jefferson and John Locke found evidence of the universality of human rights by reading the Koran.
Foley’s fields of teaching include the Middle East and Islamic history, the Arab-Israeli dispute and world history. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Arab Gulf States: When Oil is Not Enough.
For more information, contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or gklogue@mtsu.edu or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800. To listen to last week’s program on the study of youth health and wellness in Ghana, go to http://frank.mtsu.edu/~proffice/podcast2009.html and click on “May 3, 2009.”

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