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Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam (Paperback)
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Fethi Benslama is a psychoanalyst who, although a secular thinker,
identifies himself as a person of Muslim culture who rejects
ready-made explanations for Islamic fundamentalism. In that spirit,
Benslama demythifies both Islam and Western ideas of the religion
by addressing the psychoanalytic root causes of the Muslim world's
clash with modernity and subsequent turn to fundamentalism. Tracing
this ideological strain to its origins, Benslama shows that
contemporary Islam consists of a fairly recent hybridization of
Arab nationalism, theocracy, and an attempt (both naive and deadly)
to ground science in faith. Combining textual analysis and Lacanian
and Freudian psychoanalysis, he examines Islam's foundation,
providing fresh readings of the book of Genesis, the Koran, The
Arabian Nights, and the work of medieval Islamic philosophers.
Refreshingly, Benslama writes without ideological bias and undoes
the simplistic, Western view of Islam while refusing to romanticize
terrorism or Muslim extremism. This is a penetrating work that
reveals an alternate history of the Islamic religion and opens new
possibilities for its future development.
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