Contemporary Arab thought
Subtitle: studies in post-1967 Arab intellectual history
By: Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabiʻ
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; Sterling, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
Subjects: Arab nationalism; Secularism -- Arab countries; Islamic renewal; Islam and politics -- Arab countries; Globalization; Arab countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-481) and index
Table of contents: title: The scope and limitation of post-1967 Arab thought; title: Contemporary Arab intellectual trends; title: Secularism and its hazards : the recent debate in the Arab world; title: Contemporary Arab philosophical views of secularism; title: Formation of contemporary identities : nationalism and Islamism in contemporary Arab thought; title: Traditional values, social change and the contemporary Arab personality; title: Globalization : a contemporary Islamic response?; title: Contemporary Arab thought and globalization; title: Rāshid Ghannūshī and the questions of Sharīʻah and civil society; title: Muslim self-criticism in contemporary Arab thought : the case of Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ghazālī; title: Islam and Muslims in crisis; title: Toward a critical Arab reason : the contributions of Muḥammad ʻĀbid al-Jābīrī; title: Towards modern Arab reason; title: Costantine Zurayk and the search for Arab nationalism; title: Mahdī ʻĀmil and the unfinished project of Arab marxist philosophy; title: Abdallah Laroui : from objective marxism to liberal etatism