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1 online resource (157 pages) |
| Series |
Islamic Studies
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Islamic studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by the Publisher; Goethe's Gretchen Question: "How Do You Feel About Religion?"; Name the Taboo and Think the Unthinkable; "Quasi-Official Atheist of the Arab World"; Fundamentalism as Counter-Reaction to Modernity; Occidentalism and Jargon of Authenticity; Gifted Teacher and Sought-After Scholar; WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?; 1 Faith and Reason in Islam: Strategies in the Education of Muslim Communities; 2 Jihad; 3 The Takfir Syllogism; 4 What is Islamism?; 5 The Shari'a from a Secular Perspective; Notes |
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SELF-IMAGE, THE OTHER AND CROSSING BORDERS6 Owning the Future: Modern Arabs and Hamlet; Reconciling Self-Image and Reality; Arab Nationalism: Retrieving the Usurped Role of World Leadership?; The Contemporary Arab: Sad, Melancholic, Perplexed and Vexed?; 7 Experience or "Regime of Truth"? About Translation, Arabic and the Postmodern; Notes; 8 Crossing Borders: Orientalism, lslamism and Postmodernism; Occidentalism; Literature; Notes; 9 What's in a Name: Middle East or West Asia?; CIVIL SOCIETY AND ARAB REVOLT; 10 The Concept of Civil Society in Relation to the 'Arab Spring'; Notes |
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11 Arab Nationalism, Islamism and the Arab Uprising12 Syria in Revolt; Daily Experiences Foretold a Crisis that Many Syrians Tried Hard to Deny. And Deny We Did; The Sunni Majority Hoped the U.S. Would Help Deliver Syria to Them, as it Had Iraq to the Shi'a; The West Has Failed, Perhaps Wilfully, to Understand the Revolution; 13 Orientalism of the Worst Kind; What Free Elections?; Amazing Double Standards; Each Time Has its Own Problems; Loyal Supporter of Theocracy; Notes; SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER; 14 Statement by 99 Syrian Intellectuals; Signatories; Notes |
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15 Saving the Nonviolent Revolution in Syria: For a Credible StrategyNotes; 16 Syrian Writers, Artists and Journalists Speak Out Against US and Russian Policy; The Signatories; Notes; CLOSING WORDS; 17 Goethe Medal 2015 Acceptance Speech; Bibliography |
| Summary |
Sadik J. Al-Azm was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, Secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. This fourth collection of his essays includes:- Syria in Revolt (2014)- Experience or ""Regime of Truth""? About Translation, Arabic and the Postmodern (2014) - Orientalism of the Worst Kind (2015)- The Shari'a from a Secular Perspective (2015)- Crossing Borders: Orientalism, lslamism and Postmodernism (2016)- What's in a Name: Middle East or West Asia? (2016) |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Islam and politics.
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Islam and secularism.
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Islamic fundamentalism.
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Islam.
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Islam. |
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Islam |
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Islam and politics |
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Islam and secularism |
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Islamic fundamentalism |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Al-Azm, Sadik J. Occidentalism, Conspiracy and Taboo : Collected Essays on Islam and Politics Volume 4. Berlin : Gerlach Press, ©2019 9783959940467 |
| ISBN |
3959940475 (electronic book) |
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9783959940474 (electronic bk.) |
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9783959940467 |
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