Research Catalog

Title

Islams and modernities / Aziz Al-Azmeh.

Author

ʻAẓmah, ʻAzīz

Publication

London ; New York : Verso, 1996.

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Details

Description

viii, 197 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Al-Azmeh traces how political Islam breaks with core elements of the Muslim tradition and, at the same time, roots many of its concepts in European reactionary and romantic thought. Surveying both its social origins end its intellectual genealogy, he rethinks the relationship between Islam end the West, uncovering a rich actual history of interaction. This second edition, enriched by three new essays, wlll challenge the cliches of crusaders and fanatics on both sides and help to dispel the ignorance which breeds such fear and distrust.

Series Statement

Phronesis

Uniform Title

Phronesis (London, England)

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Islamic fundamentalism
• Islam > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue : Muslim "culture" and the European tribe -- Culturalism, grand narrative of capitalism exultant -- 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.

ISBN

1859841066 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^96048963^

OCLC

• 35911192
• SCSB-11748179

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library