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Occidentalism, conspiracy and taboo : collected essays on Islam and politics. Volume 4 /
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)-...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Gerlach Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Islamic studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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