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- English
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Islams and Modernities
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Islam has become the new spectre haunting Europe. All too often, even well-meaning liberals portray the modern resurgence of Islam as the new "Green Menace"-intolerant, medieval and barbaric-which has replaced Communism as the main threat to Western civilization and values. For Aziz Al-Azmeh, this Orientalist and racist view of Islam is nothing but the mirror-image of the myths propagated by Islamic fundamentalists and radicals. Both views share an erroneous and ahistorical conception of Islam as an unchanging and monolithic entity. Surveying both its social origins and its intellectual genealogy, Al-Azmeh rethinks the relationship between Islam and the West, uncovering a rich actual history of interaction.
In this expanded new edition, the author examines the discourse surrounding Islamism and irrationalism after 9/11.
In this expanded new edition, the author examines the discourse surrounding Islamism and irrationalism after 9/11.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Prologue: Muslim ‘Culture’ and the European Tribe
- 1. Culturalism, Grand Narrative of Capitalism Exultant
- 2. Civilization, Culture and the New Barbarians
- 3. The Religious and the Secular in Contemporary Arab Life
- 4. Islamism and the Arabs
- 5. The Discourse of Cultural Authenticity: Islamist Revivalism and Enlightenment Universalism
- 6. Muslim Modernism and the Canonical Text
- 7. Utopia and Islamic Political Thought
- 8. Wahhabite Polity
- 9. Islamic Studies and the European Imagination
- 10. Postmodern Obscurantism and ‘The Muslim Question’
- Notes
- Index