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Secularism in the Arab world : contexts, ideas and consequences /

This book is a translation of Aziz al-Azmeh's seminal work Al-'Ilmaniya min mandhur mukhtalif that was first published in Beirut in 1992. Both celebrated and criticised for its reflections on Arab secularisation and secularism in the modern history of the Arab World, it is the only study t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: ʻAẓmah, ʻAzīz (Autor)
Otros Autores: Bond, David (Translator) (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Colección:In translation, modern Muslim thinkers.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Foreword by Gilbert Achcar; Preface to the English Translation; 1. 1992-2018; 2. Negative authority; 3. Keywords: vitalism, historism; 4. Secularism and the sociology of fate; 5 One postcolonialist standard; Preface to the second edition; Introduction; Chapter One: Religion and the world in historical perspective; 1. On the term 'secularism'; 2. Religion and public life in Christian commonwealths; 3. Islam and the world; Chapter Two: The reformist state and the universalist orientation; 1. The state and its society: education and secular culture; 2. The secularisation of daily life; 3. The state: from the millet to the secular state; Chapter Three: Intellectual transformations and elusive reconciliation; 1. Evolutionism and Salafism; 2. Translation and equivocation; 3. Explicit secularism and accord with reality; Chapter Four: Sites of secularism in the twentieth century; 1. Secular legislation and social dynamics; 2. Intellectual secularism and reformist retrogression; 3. Secularism and politics; Chapter Five: The nationalist era and the future besieged; 1. The flowering of secularism and its social dynamic; 2. State, religion and the beleaguered future; Chapter Six: Conclusion: Secularism today in the context of its adversaries; 1. The discourse of exceptionalism and its auxiliaries; 2. Islam, politics and society; 3. The context of secularism; Bibliography; Index.