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Secularism in the Arab World : Contexts, Ideas and Consequences
Al-‘Ilmānīya min manẓur mukhtalif. English
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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.
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- Creator
- Aziz al-Azmeh
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019
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- 1 online resource (l, 540 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- ISBNs
- 147444749X, 9781474447492, 1474447465, 9781474447461
- OCLC
- on1150168899, on1149032488, on1312726278
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2020).
- Intro -- Foreword by Gilbert Achcar -- Preface to the English Translation -- 1992-2018 -- Negative Authority -- Keywords: Vitalism, Historism -- Secularism and the Sociology of Fate -- One Post-colonialist Standard -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Second Arabic Edition -- Introduction -- 1 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 -- 2 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 -- 3 Intellectual Transformations and Elusive Reconciliation -- 1 Evolutionism and Salafism -- 2 Translation and Equivocation -- 3 Explicit Secularism and Accord with Reality -- 4 Sites of Secularism in the Twentieth Century -- 1 Secular Legislation and Social Dynamics -- 2 Intellectual Secularism and Reformist Retrogression -- 3 Secularism and Politics -- 5 The Nationalist Era and the Future Besieged -- 1 The Flowering of Secularism and its Social Dynamic -- 2 State, Religion, and the Beleaguered Future -- 6 Secularism at the Turn of the Millennium 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