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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: ʻAẓm, Ṣādiq Jalāl (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Berlin State : Gerlach Press 2014.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1s474sm
Table of Contents:
  • 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.