Islams and Modernities
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1844673855
ISBN-13
9781844673858
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 7th, 2009
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
406 grams
Dimensions
23.30 x 15.50 x 1.80 cms
Ksh 3,600.00
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Challenges romantic, ahistoric and irreconcilable notions of Islamic and Western cultures, highlighting the plurality of both. This book rethinks the relationship between Muslim and Western societies through to the post-9/11 period, uncovering a history of interaction and exchange.
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.
In this expanded new edition, the author examines the discourse surrounding Islamism and irrationalism after 9/11.
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