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Authors: Aziz Al-Azmeh
ISBN-13: 9781844673858, ISBN-10: 1844673855
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Date Published: August 2009
Edition: New

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Author Biography: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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.

Book Synopsis

Challenges the romantic, ahistorical and irreconcilable notions of Islamic and Western cultures to highlight the plurality and historicity of both.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Prologue: Muslim "Culture" and the European Tribe1
1Culturalism, Grand Narrative of Capitalism Exultant17
2The Religious and the Secular in Contemporary Arab Life41
3Islamism and the Arabs59
4The Discourse of Cultural Authenticity: Islamist Revivalism and Enlightenment Universalism80
5Muslim Modernism and the Canonical Text101
6Utopia and Islamic Political Thought128
7Wahhabite Polity143
8Islamic Studies and the European imagination161
Index185

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