Islams and modernities /

Challenging the similarly romantic, a historic and irreconcilable notions of Islamic and Western cultures, this book cuts through conventional wisdom and common cliches to highlight the plurality and historicity of both. For Aziz Al-Azmeh, the Orientalist and racist view of Islam is nothing but the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: ʻAẓmah, ʻAzīz
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Verso, 2009.
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Islamic fundamentalism.
Islam > 20th century.
Islam > 21st century.
Islam and politics.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : Muslim 'culture' and the European tribe
  • Culturalism, grand narrative of capitalism exultant
  • Civilization, culture and the new barbarians
  • The religious and the secular in contemporary Arab life
  • Islamism and the Arabs
  • The discourse of cultural authenticity : Islamist revivalism and enlightenment universalism
  • Muslim modernism and the canonical text
  • Utopia and Islamic political thought
  • Wahhabite polity
  • Islamic studies and the European imagination
  • Postmodern obscurantism and 'the Muslim question'.

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