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Secularism in the Arab World - Contexts, Ideas and Consequences (Hardcover)
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Secularism in the Arab World - Contexts, Ideas and Consequences (Hardcover)
Series: In Translation: Modern Muslim Thinkers
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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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