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Title

Cultural transitions in the Middle East / edited by Şerif Mardin.

Publication

Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Mardin, Şerif
• American University (Washington, D.C.). School of International Service.

Description

xiii, 278 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume deals with the interlacing of themes constitutive of traditional cultures and world-views in the Middle East with concepts and outlooks that have originated in the modern Western world. A number of Muslim thinkers who are indigenous products of the Middle East cultural setting have now begun to use some of the forms of modern Western literature and social thought. Conversely, some intellectuals trained in modern secular schools have attempted to reevaluate their Islamic heritage. The papers cover aspects of this subtle interpenetration which has not been explored to date.

Series Statement

Social, economic and political studies of the Middle East, 0085-6193 ; v. 48 = Etudes sociales, économiques et politiques du Moyen Orient ; v. 48

Uniform Title

Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East ; v. 48.

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Intellectuals > Middle East > 19th century
• Intellectuals > Middle East > 20th century
• Intellectuals
• Intellectual life
• Islam
• Kulturkontakt
• Kulturwandel
• Modernisierung
• Geestesgeschiedenis
• Middle East > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Middle East > Intellectual life > 19th century
• Middle East
• Naher Osten
• Westliche Welt

Note

• Papers from a conference convened at the School of International Service, the American University, in December 1989.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-269) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Serif Mardin -- Constitutions and the struggle for political order : a study in the modernization of political tradition / Said Amir Arjomand -- New England puritanism and liberal education in the Middle East : the American University of Beirut as a cultural transplant / Samir Khalaf -- A critique of Hassan Hanafi concerning his reflections on the scarcity of freedom in the Arab-Muslim world / Richard K. Khuri -- A literature of Islamic revival? : the autobiography of Shaykh Kishk / Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- Sayyid Qutb : the poverty of philosophy and the vindication of Islamic tradition / Shahrough Akhavi -- The Muslim intellectual and his audience : a new configuration of writer and reader among believers in the Republic of Turkey / Michael E. Meeker -- Culture chance and the intellectual : a study of the effect of secularization in modern Turkey / Serif Mardin -- Islam and international relations in Turkey / Sabri Sayari -- Popular culture, state ideology, and national identity in Turkey : the Arabesk polemic / Irene Markoff -- The encounter of post-revolutionary thought in Iran with Hegel, Heidegger and Popper / Mehrzad Boroujerdi.

ISBN

• 9004098739
• 9789004098732

LCCN

93041553

OCLC

• ocm29256733
• 29256733
• SCSB-14457355

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library