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Authors: Aziz Al-Azmeh
ISBN-13: 9781844673841, ISBN-10: 1844673847
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Verso
Date Published: August 2009
Edition: New
Aziz Al-Azmeh was born in Damascus. He received the PhD in Oriental Studies from University of Oxford. He is currently University Professor at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. His other works include Keywords, Islam in Europe, Ibn Khladun, and The Times of History.
Challenges the romantic, ahistorical and irreconcilable notions of Islamic and Western cultures to highlight the plurality and historicity of both.
Acknowledgements | ||
Prologue: Muslim "Culture" and the European Tribe | 1 | |
1 | Culturalism, Grand Narrative of Capitalism Exultant | 17 |
2 | The Religious and the Secular in Contemporary Arab Life | 41 |
3 | Islamism and the Arabs | 59 |
4 | The Discourse of Cultural Authenticity: Islamist Revivalism and Enlightenment Universalism | 80 |
5 | Muslim Modernism and the Canonical Text | 101 |
6 | Utopia and Islamic Political Thought | 128 |
7 | Wahhabite Polity | 143 |
8 | Islamic Studies and the European imagination | 161 |
Index | 185 |