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Age of Coexistence - The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (Hardcover)
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Age of Coexistence - The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World (Hardcover)
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"Flawless . . . [Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations
of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle
East."-Robert Fisk, The Independent Today's headlines paint the
Middle East as a collection of war-torn countries and extremist
groups consumed by sectarian rage. Ussama Makdisi's Age of
Coexistence reveals a hidden and hopeful story that counters this
cliched portrayal. It shows how a region rich with ethnic and
religious diversity created a modern culture of coexistence amid
Ottoman reformation, European colonialism, and the emergence of
nationalism. Moving from the nineteenth century to the present,
this groundbreaking book explores, without denial or equivocation,
the politics of pluralism during the Ottoman Empire and in the
post-Ottoman Arab world. Rather than judging the Arab world as a
place of age-old sectarian animosities, Age of Coexistence
describes the forging of a complex system of coexistence, what
Makdisi calls the "ecumenical frame." He argues that new forms of
antisectarian politics, and some of the most important examples of
Muslim-Christian political collaboration, crystallized to make and
define the modern Arab world. Despite massive challenges and
setbacks, and despite the persistence of colonialism and
authoritarianism, this framework for coexistence has endured for
nearly a century. It is a reminder that religious diversity does
not automatically lead to sectarianism. Instead, as Makdisi
demonstrates, people of different faiths, but not necessarily of
different political outlooks, have consistently tried to build
modern societies that transcend religious and sectarian
differences.
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