عنوان

Secularism in the Arab world :

(Number (ISBN

9781474447492

Erroneous ISBN

1474447465

Erroneous ISBN

147444749X

Erroneous ISBN

9781474447461

Number

bc10251

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Secularism in the Arab world :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

contexts, ideas and consequences /

First Statement of Responsibility

Aziz al-Azmeh ; English translation, David Bond.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Edinburgh :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Edinburgh University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (448 pages)

Series Title

In translation: modern Muslim thinkers

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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. Both celebrated and criticised for its reflections on Arab secularisation and secularism in the modern history of the Arab World, it is the only study to date to approach its subject as a set of historical changes which affected the regulation of the social, political and cultural order, and which permeated the concrete workings of society, rather than as an ideological discussion framed from the outset by the assumed opposition between Islam and secularism. The author takes a comprehensive analytical perspective to show that an almost imperceptible yet real, multi-faceted and objective secularising process has been underway in the Arab world since the 1850s. The early onset was the result of adapting to systemic novelties introduced at the time and a reaction to the perceived European advance and local retardation. The need for meaningful reform, and the actions taken in order to put in place a new organisation of state and society based on modern organisational and educational criteria, rather than older, religious traditions, stemmed from the perceived weakness of Arab polities and from an internal drive to overcome this situation. The book follows these themes into the close of the 20th century, marked with the rise of Islamism. A preface to the English translation takes a retrospective look at the theme from the vantage point of social, political and intellectual issues of relevance today.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/ctv10mkp3v

Title

Secularism in the Arab world. Contexts, ideas and consequences.

International Standard Book Number

9781474447461

General Material Designation

�Ilm�an�iyah min man�z�ur mukhtalif.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Islam and politics-- Arab countries-- 20th century.

Islam and secularism.

Secularism-- Arab countries.

HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula

Intellectual life.

Islam and politics.

Islam and secularism.

Secularism.

Arab countries, Intellectual life, 20th century.

Arab countries.

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7

HIS-- 026010

HIS-- 037060

HIS-- 037070

REL-- 037000

REL-- 084000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

�A�zmah, �Az�iz

Bond, David, (Translator)

Date of Transaction

20211005081201.0

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pn

Electronic name

[Book]

270410

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