Aziz Al-Azmeh

Secularism in the Arab World (eBook, PDF)

Contexts, Ideas and Consequences
Übersetzer: Bond, David

• Format: PDF

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. Both celebrated and criticised for its reflections on Arab secularisation and secularism in the modern history of the Arab World, it is the only study to date to approach its subject as a set of historical changes which affected the regulation of the social, political and cultural order, and which permeated the concrete workings of society, rather than as an ideological discussion framed from the outset by the assumed opposition between Islam and secularism. The author takes a comprehensive analytical perspective to show that an almost imperceptible yet real, multi-faceted and objective secularising process has been underway in the Arab world since the 1850s. The early onset was the result of adapting to systemic novelties introduced at the time and a reaction to the perceived European advance and local retardation. The need for meaningful reform, and the actions taken in order to put in place a new organisation of state and society based on modern organisational and educational criteria, rather than older, religious traditions, stemmed from the perceived weakness of Arab polities and from an internal drive to overcome this situation. The book follows these themes into the close of the 20th century, marked with the rise of Islamism. A preface to the English translation takes a retrospective look at the theme from the vantage point of social, political and intellectual issues of relevance today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474447492
• Artikelnr.: 72429108

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. A professional translator, David is fluent in Arabic and French. His previous translations include Understanding the Qur'an Today by Mahmoud Hussein (Saqi Books, 2013) and Islam: Between Message and History by Abdelmadjid Charfi (EUP, 2009).

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