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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 twentieth
centuries, 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.
This book could easily be called 'A Guide for the Modern Muslim',
for someone to whom the sentiments of his or her ancestors resonate
but who cannot accept the canonised formulas of a stultified
education. Charfi spells out what, for him, is the essential
message of Islam, followed by a history of its unfolding through
the person of the Prophet Muhammad, who was a visionary seeking to
change the ideals, attitudes and behaviours of the society in which
he lived. The message and its history are delineated as two
separate things, conflated by tradition. Charfi's reflections cross
those horizons where few Muslim scholars have dared until now to
tread. He confronts with great lucidity those difficult questions
with which Muslims are struggling, attempting to reconsider them
from a moral and political perspective that is independent of the
frameworks produced by tradition."
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.
So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable
climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative
Ecologies is a bold reappraisal of the outsized role fossil fuels
have played in making the environment visible, factual, and
politically operable in North America. Following stories of
hydrocarbon harm that lay the groundwork for environmental science
and policy, this book brings into clear focus the dialectic between
the negative ecologies of fossil fuels and the ongoing discovery of
the environment. Exploring iconic sites of the oil economy, ranging
from leaky Caribbean refineries to deepwater oil spills, from the
petrochemical fallout of plastics manufacturing to the extractive
frontiers of Canada, Negative Ecologies documents the upheavals,
injuries, and disasters that have long accompanied fossil fuels and
the manner in which our solutions have often been less about
confronting the cause than managing the effects. This history of
our present promises to re-situate scholarly understandings of
fossil fuels and renovate environmental critique today. David Bond
challenges us to consider what forms of critical engagement may now
be needed to both confront the deleterious properties of fossil
fuels and envision ways of living beyond them.
Viking Fund Publications In Anthropology, Number 9.
Thirty years later, striding a hypotenuse/of bare earth between two
sidewalks here/at the university, I can't explain the times;/Abbie
Hoffman high jumps a velvet aisle/rope in federal court and Old
Main/burns boundless in the night like/an ecstatic cult of images
because/we did or did not love the Fatherland.
From ""American Chicken""
Striking imagery and precise diction are characteristics of
American Chicken, from the eloquence of the elegiac "Rend Lake at
Sunset," a poetic reflection on the southern Illinois mining
landscape where "hills of scoured coal smolder," to the tragi-comic
nostalgia and regret inherent in the title poem as the narrator
envies those who made the hard Vietnam choices he feels he
evaded.
The poems in this very accessible book won for its author the
Friends of Morris Library Delta Award, a regional prize presented
to Bond "in recognition of his evocative poetry describing the blue
collar working man and the Midwest, giving the common man a unique
place in the literature of southern Illinois."
So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable
climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative
Ecologies is a bold reappraisal of the outsized role fossil fuels
have played in making the environment visible, factual, and
politically operable in North America. Following stories of
hydrocarbon harm that lay the groundwork for environmental science
and policy, this book brings into clear focus the dialectic between
the negative ecologies of fossil fuels and the ongoing discovery of
the environment. Exploring iconic sites of the oil economy, ranging
from leaky Caribbean refineries to deepwater oil spills, from the
petrochemical fallout of plastics manufacturing to the extractive
frontiers of Canada, Negative Ecologies documents the upheavals,
injuries, and disasters that have long accompanied fossil fuels and
the manner in which our solutions have often been less about
confronting the cause than managing the effects. This history of
our present promises to re-situate scholarly understandings of
fossil fuels and renovate environmental critique today. David Bond
challenges us to consider what forms of critical engagement may now
be needed to both confront the deleterious properties of fossil
fuels and envision ways of living beyond them.
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