Critique of religious thought
By: Sadik J. al-Azm ; with a new foreword by the author ; translated from the Arabic by George Stergios and Mansour Ajami
Edition: First authorized English edition of Naqd al-fikr ad-dīnī.
Publisher: Gerlach Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Berlin, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9783940924445; 9783940924452; 9783940924940
Subjects: Kritik; 08.37 philosophy of religion; Intellectual life; Diskurs; Islam; Religious thought
Work titles: Naqd al-fikr al-dīnī
Description: "With a new introduction by the author, translated by George Stergios, Sadik al-Azm's Critique of Religious Thought set off one of the the great Arab intellectual uproars of the twentieth century, leading to the author's imprisonment and trial for mocking religion and inciting sectarian conflict. As in his earlier Self-Criticism after the Defeat, al-Azm takes on the taboos of the age and their sponsors: the religious elites. In this book he attempts to awaken the Arab mind from its dogmatic slumber, leading it out of the Middle Ages and into a modern world characterized by science and rationality"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Translator's acknowledgements --; title: Introduction to the English edition --; title: Scientific culture and the poverty of religious thought --; title: The tragedy of Satan (Iblis) --; title: Reply to a criticism --; title: The miracle of the apparation of the Virgin and the eradication of the traces of aggression --; title: Deception in contemporary Western Christian thought --; title: Introduction to the scientific-materialist conception of the universe and its development --; title: Appendix 1: Documents from the trial of the author and publisher December 1969-January 1970 --; title: Appendix 2: Statement of the Mufti of the Republic [Lebanon] about the book "Critique of religious thought."