Islams and Modernities
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Islams and Modernities

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Islams and Modernities

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Islam has become the new spectre haunting Europe. All too often, even well-meaning liberals portray the modern resurgence of Islam as the new "Green Menace"-intolerant, medieval and barbaric-which has replaced Communism as the main threat to Western civilization and values. For Aziz Al-Azmeh, this Orientalist and racist view of Islam is nothing but the mirror-image of the myths propagated by Islamic fundamentalists and radicals. Both views share an erroneous and ahistorical conception of Islam as an unchanging and monolithic entity. Surveying both its social origins and its intellectual genealogy, Al-Azmeh rethinks the relationship between Islam and the West, uncovering a rich actual history of interaction.
In this expanded new edition, the author examines the discourse surrounding Islamism and irrationalism after 9/11.

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Publisher
Verso
Year
2020
ISBN
9781789604931
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religion, Politics & State

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Preface to the Third Edition
  8. Prologue: Muslim ‘Culture’ and the European Tribe
  9. 1. Culturalism, Grand Narrative of Capitalism Exultant
  10. 2. Civilization, Culture and the New Barbarians
  11. 3. The Religious and the Secular in Contemporary Arab Life
  12. 4. Islamism and the Arabs
  13. 5. The Discourse of Cultural Authenticity: Islamist Revivalism and Enlightenment Universalism
  14. 6. Muslim Modernism and the Canonical Text
  15. 7. Utopia and Islamic Political Thought
  16. 8. Wahhabite Polity
  17. 9. Islamic Studies and the European Imagination
  18. 10. Postmodern Obscurantism and ‘The Muslim Question’
  19. Notes
  20. Index