An edition of Contemporary Arab thought
(2010)
Contemporary Arab thought
cultural critique in comparative perspective
by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab
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Contemporary Arab thought: cultural critique in comparative perspective
2010, Columbia University Press
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Cultural malaise and cultural identity in twentieth-century western, postcolonial, and Arab debates
The first modern Arab cultural Renaissance or Nahda : from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century
Critique after the 1967 defeat
The existential dramatization of critique the day after the defeat : Saadallah Wannous's theatrical oeuvre
Humanistic nationalism and critical reason : Qustantin Zurayq
The critique of religious-metaphysical thought : Sadeq Jalal al-Azm
The critique of ideology and historicization : Abdallah Laroui
Gendering critique : Nawal el-Saadawi and the late-twentieth-century Arab feminists
The radicalization of critique and the call for democracy : reclaiming the individual's critical faculties
Marxist, epistemological, and psychological readings of major conferences on cultural decline, renewal, and authenticity
The Cairo Conference of 1971 : authenticity and renewal in contemporary Arab culture
The Kuwait conference of 1974 : the crisis of civilizational development in the Arab homeland
The Cairo Conference of 1984 : heritage and the challenges of the age in the Arab homeland : authenticity and contemporaneity
Critique in these conferences : the fixation on tradition and the intellectualization of the malaise
Critique in Islamic theology
From the unthought and the unthinkable to the thinkable : Mohammed Arkoun
The historicity of revelation and the struggle for thought in the time of Anathema : Nasr Hamid abu Zayd
Feminist historicization of religious traditions : Nazira Zain al-Din, Fatima Mernissi, and Leila Ahmed
An Islamic theology of liberation : the Islamic left of Hassan Hanafi
A Christian Arab theology of liberation : Naim Ateek and Mitri Raheb in Palestine-Israel
On the potential for critique in traditional Islam : Talal Asad's analysis of the public criticism by Ulemas in Saudi Arabia
Islamic critique and the cultural malaise
Secular critique
Critique of the exclusive monopoly over true Islam : Farag Fouda
The importance of keeping the debate on the human level : Fouad Zakariyya
Critique of the essentialist and romantic conception of identity : Aziz al-Azmeh
Critique of the Islamicization of knowledge and the quest for an indigenous social science : Bassam Tibi, Abdelkebir Khatibi, and Hisham Sharabi
Critique of the conciliatory pattern of thinking : Muhammad Jaber al-Ansari, Hisham Sharabi, and Nadeem Naimy
Secularism, democracy, and cultural critique
Recentering the historical, the human, and the partial : the secular call for democracy and human rights
Breaking the postcolonial solitude : Arab motifs in comparative perspective
The western debates
The non-western postcolonial debates
Common leitmotivs and Arab specificities
Shifting priorities
Conclusion: The new Nahda impulses, reclaiming the right to freedom and life.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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