Louay M. Safi

The Challenge of Modernity

The Quest for Authenticity in the Arab World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the central aspects of modernity and the underlying factors at work in the process of modernization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780819193759
• ISBN-10: 0819193755
• Artikelnr.: 31204134

Autorenporträt

Louay M. Safi teaches in the Political Science Department at the International Islamic University in Malaysia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Introduction Chapter 2 Understanding Modernization: Modernization Theory
The Marxian Model of Development
The Weberian Model of Development
The Eclipse of Substantive Rationality
The Quest for Order
The Modernization of the Arab World: Prelude
Voices of Reform