Islams and Modernities - Hardcover

Al-Azmeh, Aziz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844673847 ISBN 13: 9781844673841

Verlag: Verso Books, 2009

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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 a historical 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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Aziz Al-Azmeh was born in Damascus. He received the PhD in Oriental Studies from University of Oxford. He is currently University Professor at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. His other works include Keywords, Islam in Europe, Ibn Khladun, and The Times of History.

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• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1844673847
• ISBN 13: 9781844673841
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 234
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