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Author ʻAẓm, Ṣādiq Jalāl, author

Title Is Islam secularizable? : challenging political and religious taboos / Sadik J. al-Azm
Published Berlin, Berlin State : Gerlach Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (245 pages)
Contents Islam and secular humanism -- Orientalism and orientalism in reverse -- Orientalism and conspiracy -- Time out of joint -- Palestinian Zionism -- The peace process and the Gulf crisis -- The view from Damascus : Syria and the peace process -- Replies to "The view from Damascus" -- Answer to replies "The view from Damascus" -- Islam, terrorism, and the west today -- Ground Zero revisited -- The Arab spring : "Why exactly at this time?" -- Civil society and the Arab spring -- Trends in Arab thought
Summary Sadik Al-Azm is one of today's foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offers innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. Is Islam Secularizable? includes essays on: Civil Society and the Arab Spring, Orientalism and Conspiracy, Ground Zero Revisited, Islam and Secular Humanism, Time out of Joint: Western Dominance, Islamist Terror, and the Arab Imagination, Trends in Arab Thought, Palestinian Zionism, and Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed January 21, 2016)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes In English
Subject Islam and secularism.
Islam and politics.
RELIGION / Islam / General
Islam and politics
Islam and secularism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783940924278
394092427X