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Violence and Islam - Conversations with Houria Abdelouahed (Hardcover)
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Violence and Islam - Conversations with Houria Abdelouahed (Hardcover)
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Adonis' influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of
T. S. Eliot in the English-speaking world. Yet alongside this
spearheading of a modernist literary revolution, the secular
Syrian-born poet is also renowned for his persistent and staunch
attacks on despotism across the Arab world. In these conversations
with the psychoanalyst Houria Abdelouahed, Adonis brings into sharp
relief the latest wave of violence and war to engulf Arabic
countries, tracing the cause of ongoing tensions back to the
beginnings of Islam itself. Since the death of the prophet
Muhammad, Islam has been used as a political and economic weapon,
exploiting and reinforcing tribal divisions to aid the pursuit of
power. Adonis argues that recent events in the Middle East from the
failures of the Arab Spring to the rise of ISIS and the bloody war
in his native Syria attest to the destructive effects of an Islamic
worldview that prohibits any notion of plurality and breeds
violence. If there is to be any hope of peace or progress in the
Arab world, it is therefore imperative that these mentalities are
overcome. In their place, Adonis urges a new spirit of enquiry,
embodied in the freedoms to interrogate the past and to question
cultural norms. Adonis' penetrating analysis comes at a critical
time, offering an alternative path to the cycle of violence that
plagues the Arab world today.
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