Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Dedication -- Introduction: Secular Moments and Political Approaches -- Part 1 Theoretical and Historical Narrativities -- 1 The Arab Itinerary of Machiavelli, Alfieri and Gramsci: Secular Narrativities -- 2 Cultural and Political Lineages of Arab Secularism -- Part 2 The Machiavellian Moment -- 3 Points of Departure: Early Arab Modernity -- 4 Arab Women's Agency -- 5 Political Activism and Secular Deism -- Part 3 The Alfierian Moment -- 6 Science and Progress: The Arab Intelligentsia and Secular Interpretations
7 Religious Injunctions and Secular Laws -- Part 4 The Gramscian Moment -- 8 Reinventing Secularism: Public Dialogues, Debates and Confrontations -- 9 Civil Society in Its Gramscian Moment -- Conclusion: Secularity: Towards a Critical Historical Theory -- Bibliography -- Index