Secularism, Fundamentalism, and the Struggle for the Meaning of Islam
Collected Essays in Three Volumes
by Sadik J. al-Azm, with a foreword by Stefan Wild
Hardback (Published)
(January 2014)
ISBN: 9783940924209
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Sadik Jalal al-Azm is an internationally respected scholar and political commentator who has offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on issues surrounding Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. He is recognised as a principled defender of human rights and has been the main ethical reference for the Syrian revolution. Professor al-Azm was educated at the American University Beirut, and at Yale in modern European philosophy and has taught at Damascus, Harvard, Princeton, Brandeis, Oslo, Antwerp, Hamburg, and Berlin, his academic specialization being Immanuel Kant and the critique of religious thought. He has been the recipient of the Dr. Leopold-Lucas Prize 2004, the Erasmus Prize 2004, and in March 2013 the Mahmoud Darwish Award for Freedom and Creativity.
Sadik Jalal al-Azm is an internationally respected scholar and political commentator who has offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on issues surrounding Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. He is recognised as a principled defender of human rights and has been the main ethical reference for the Syrian revolution. Professor Al-Azm was educated at the American University Beirut, and at Yale in modern European philosophy and has taught at Damascus, Harvard, Princeton, Brandeis, Oslo, Antwerp, Hamburg, and Berlin, his academic specialization being Immanuel Kant and the critique of religious thought. He has been the recipient of the Dr. Leopold-Lucas Prize 2004, the Erasmus Prize 2004, and in March 2013 the Mahmoud Darwish Award for Freedom and Creativity.
Volume 1: On Fundamentalisms Volume 2: Islam - Submission and Disobedience Volume 3: Is Islam Secularizable? Volume 1 - On Fundamentalisms Foreword, Stefan Wild 1. Islam and the Science-Religion Debates in Modern Times 2. Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered: A Critical Outline of Problems, Ideas and Approaches I. Terminological Debates II. A Defense III. Some Historical Comparisons IV. Errors, Heresies, and Innovations V. Popular Sovereignty VI. Modernisms and Latitudinarians VII. Religion and Science VIII. Protestants and Islamists IX. Inerrantists, Dominionists, and Theonomists 3. The Struggle Over the Meaning of Islam 4. Appendix: What is Islamism? A Short and Compact Answer 5. Appendix: The Takfir Syllogism Notes Acknowledgements Chronological Table Volume 2 - Islam: Submission and Disobedience 1. The Importance of Being Earnest about Salman Rushdie 2. Satanic Verses Post Festum: The Global, the Local, and the Literary 3. Is the 'Fatwa' a Fatwa? 4. Universalizing from Particulars 5. The Tragedy of Satan (Iblis) Notes Acknowledgements Chronological Table of Contents Volume 3 - Is Islam Secularizable? Challenging Political and Religious Taboos 1. Islam and Secular Humanism 2. Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse 3. Orientalism and Conspiracy 4. Time Out of Joint 5. Palestinian Zionism 6. The Peace Process and the Gulf Crisis 7. The View from Damascus: Syria and the Peace Process 8. Replies to 'The View from Damascus' 9. Answer to Replies 'The View from Damascus' 10. Islam, Terrorism, and the West Today 11. Ground Zero Revisited 12. The Arab Spring: "Why Exactly at this Time?" 13. Civil Society and the Arab Spring 14. Trends in Arab Thought Notes Acknowledgements Chronological Table of Contents
- By (author) Sadik J. al-Azm
- By (author) Stefan Wild
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