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Author:   Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.734kg
ISBN:  

9780745321691

ISBN 10:   0745321690
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   20 November 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Ghada Talhami PART ONE THEMATIC SECTION Introduction 1. The Scope and Limitation of Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History 2. Contemporary Arab Intellectual Trends 3. Secularism and its Hazards: The Recent Debate in the Arab World 4. Contemporary Arab Views of Secularism 5. Formation of Contemporary Identities: Nationalism and Islamism in Contemporary Arab Thought 6. Traditional Values, Social Change and the Contemporary Arab Personality 7. Globalisation: A Contemporary Islamic Response? 8. Contemporary Arab View of Globalisation PART TWO THINKERS’ SECTION 1. Rashid Ghannoushi [of Tunisia] and the Questions of Shari’ah and Civil Society 2. Muslim Self-Criticism in Contemporary Arab Thought: The Case of Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali (1916-1996) 3. Islam and Muslims in Crisis 4. Toward a Critical Arab Reason: The Contributions of Muhammad ‘Abid al-Jabiri 5. Critical Arab Reason 6. Costantine Zurayk and the Search for Arab Nationalism 7. Mahdi ‘Amil and the Unfinished Project of Arab Marxism 8. Abdallah Laroui: From Objective Marxism to Liberal Etatism Conclusions Bibliography Index

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This book deals with the major issues facing the Arab world. -- The Middle East One hopes that this rich work will inspire further studies. Certainly the student of Arab political thought should find this comprehensive survey .. useful in identifying and gaining familiarity with some of the most important developments in post-1967 Arab political thought. -- Michaelle Browers, Middle East Journal

'This book deals with the major issues facing the Arab world.'The Middle East'One hopes that this rich work will inspire further studies. Certainly the student of Arab political thought should find this comprehensive survey .. useful in identifying and gaining familiarity with some of the most important developments in post-1967 Arab political thought'Michaelle Browers, Middle East Journal, Vol.58, no.3, Summer 2004.

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Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' is professor of Islamic Studies at the Macdonald Center for the study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary and co-editor of The Muslim World. He is the author of Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World (Suny Press), and the editor of several books.

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