Aziz al-Azmeh

Secularism in the Arab World

Contexts, Ideas and Consequences
Übersetzer: Bond, David

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• In Translation: Contemporary Thought in Muslim Contexts
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 746g
• ISBN-13: 9781474447478
• ISBN-10: 1474447473
• Artikelnr.: 62216886

Autorenporträt

Aziz Al-Azmeh is CEU University Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Prior to that, he had taught at the University of Exeter and at the American University of Beirut, and been visiting professor at Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, Georgetown, ISTAC, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris. He was a long-term Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Berlin, and a Fellow at the Swedish Institute for Advanced Studies, Uppsala, the Kollegium Budapest, the Kaete Hamburger Kolleg, Bochum, and a Senior Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, University of Bonn, as well as a Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Center for Scholars in Bellagio. Aziz Al-Azmeh held the Bourse Fernand Braudel over several terms as Directeur de Recherches Associé, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Gilbert Achcar
Preface to the English Translation
1. 1992-2018
2. Negative authority
3. Keywords: vitalism, historism
4. Secularism and the sociology of fate
5. One postcolonialist standard
Preface to the second edition
Introduction
Chapter One Religion and the world in historical perspective
1.On the term "secularism"
2.Religion and public life in Christian commonwealths
3.Islam and the world
Chapter Two The reformist state and the universalist orientation
1. The state and its society: education and secular culture
2. The secularisation of daily life
3. The state: from the millet to the secular state
Chapter Three Intellectual transformations and elusive reconciliation
1. Evolutionism and Salafism
2. Translation and equivocation
3. Explicit secularism and accord with reality
Chapter Four Sites of secularism in the twentieth century
1. Secular legislation and social dynamics
2. Intellectual secularism and reformist retrogression
3. Secularism and politics
Chapter Five The nationalist era and the future besieged
1. The flowering of secularism and its social dynamic
2. State, religion and the beleaguered future
Chapter Six Conclusion: Secularism today in the context of its adversaries
1. The discourse of exceptionalism and its auxiliaries
2. Islam, politics and society
3. The context of secularism
Bibliography
Index