Contemporary Arab thought
Subtitle: cultural critique in comparative perspective
By: Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780231144889; 9780231516174; 9780231144896
Subjects: Civilization, Arab -- 20th century; Criticism (Philosophy); Criticism -- Arab countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Cultural malaise and cultural identity in twentieth-century western, postcolonial, and Arab debates; title: The first modern Arab cultural Renaissance or Nahda : from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century; title: Critique after the 1967 defeat; title: The existential dramatization of critique the day after the defeat : Saadallah Wannous's theatrical oeuvre; title: Humanistic nationalism and critical reason : Qustantin Zurayq; title: The critique of religious-metaphysical thought : Sadeq Jalal al-Azm; title: The critique of ideology and historicization : Abdallah Laroui; title: Gendering critique : Nawal el-Saadawi and the late-twentieth-century Arab feminists; title: The radicalization of critique and the call for democracy : reclaiming the individual's critical faculties; title: Marxist, epistemological, and psychological readings of major conferences on cultural decline, renewal, and authenticity; title: The Cairo Conference of 1971 : authenticity and renewal in contemporary Arab culture; title: The Kuwait conference of 1974 : the crisis of civilizational development in the Arab homeland; title: The Cairo Conference of 1984 : heritage and the challenges of the age in the Arab homeland : authenticity and contemporaneity; title: Critique in these conferences : the fixation on tradition and the intellectualization of the malaise; title: Critique in Islamic theology; title: From the unthought and the unthinkable to the thinkable : Mohammed Arkoun; title: The historicity of revelation and the struggle for thought in the time of Anathema : Nasr Hamid abu Zayd; title: Feminist historicization of religious traditions : Nazira Zain al-Din, Fatima Mernissi, and Leila Ahmed; title: An Islamic theology of liberation : the Islamic left of Hassan Hanafi; title: A Christian Arab theology of liberation : Naim Ateek and Mitri Raheb in Palestine-Israel; title: On the potential for critique in traditional Islam : Talal Asad's analysis of the public criticism by Ulemas in Saudi Arabia; title: Islamic critique and the cultural malaise; title: Secular critique; title: Critique of the exclusive monopoly over true Islam : Farag Fouda; title: The importance of keeping the debate on the human level : Fouad Zakariyya; title: Critique of the essentialist and romantic conception of identity : Aziz al-Azmeh; title: Critique of the Islamicization of knowledge and the quest for an indigenous social science : Bassam Tibi, Abdelkebir Khatibi, and Hisham Sharabi; title: Critique of the conciliatory pattern of thinking : Muhammad Jaber al-Ansari, Hisham Sharabi, and Nadeem Naimy; title: Secularism, democracy, and cultural critique; title: Recentering the historical, the human, and the partial : the secular call for democracy and human rights; title: Breaking the postcolonial solitude : Arab motifs in comparative perspective; title: The western debates; title: The non-western postcolonial debates; title: Common leitmotivs and Arab specificities; title: Shifting priorities; title: Conclusion: The new Nahda impulses, reclaiming the right to freedom and life.