Is Islam secularizable?: challenging political and religious taboos

Sadik Al-Azm is one of today's foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offers innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. Is Islam Secularizable? includes essays on: Civil Society and the A...

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Main Author: ʿAẓm, Ṣādiq Ǧalāl al- 1934-2016 (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Berlin, Berlin State Gerlach Press 2014
In:Year: 2014
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Islam / Secularization
Further subjects:B Islam and secularism
B Collection of essays
B Islam / Religion / Generals
B Electronic books
B Islam and politics
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Erscheint auch als: 9783940924261
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Summary:Sadik Al-Azm is one of today's foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offers innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. Is Islam Secularizable? includes essays on: Civil Society and the Arab Spring, Orientalism and Conspiracy, Ground Zero Revisited, Islam and Secular Humanism, Time out of Joint: Western Dominance, Islamist Terror, and the Arab Imagination, Trends in Arab Thought, Palestinian Zionism, and Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse
Islam and secular humanism -- Orientalism and orientalism in reverse -- Orientalism and conspiracy -- Time out of joint -- Palestinian Zionism -- The peace process and the Gulf crisis -- The view from Damascus : Syria and the peace process -- Replies to "The view from Damascus" -- Answer to replies "The view from Damascus" -- Islam, terrorism, and the west today -- Ground Zero revisited -- The Arab spring : "Why exactly at this time?" -- Civil society and the Arab spring -- Trends in Arab thought
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed January 21, 2016). - Includes bibliographical references. - In English
Title from resource description page (viewed January 21, 2016)
ISBN:394092427X