O estudo da história do Islã e dos muçulmanos na educação básica : conceitos e representações

Abstract

Islam is the religion that grows the most in number of believers in the world. Over the History the western studies construed representations about the Muslims and their practices that contributed to feed a relation of strangeness developed between the West and the East during the Middle Age. This relation of strangeness was intensified after the action of terrorist groups that act since the 20th century using the Muslim religion as the justification of their violent acts. It is observed a growing interest of the different mediums in the increase of the productions related to the theme. Students and professors are under the influence of these canonized perceptions about the Muslims and their practices, in this study there is the objective of understanding the representations elaborated about this religion in the History teaching. To this end, the study analyzes the representations about Islam and the Muslims present in two collections of History textbooks, destined to High School and distributed by the Plano Nacional do Livro Didático (PNLD). It was highlighted, in this work, the analysis of the concepts connected to the religion and their appropriation by the textbook. From that, a vocabulary of concepts was elaborated to the study of the Islam and Muslims‟ History, with the objective of contributing to the studies about the theme, as the product that accompanies this dissertation.