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Islams and Modernities

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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Islam has become the new spectre haunting Europe. All too often, even well-meaning liberals portray the modern resurgence of Islam as the new "Green Menace"-intolerant, medieval and barbaric-which has replaced Communism as the main threat to Western civilization and values. For Aziz Al-Azmeh, this Orientalist and racist view of Islam is nothing but the mirror-image of the myths propagated by Islamic fundamentalists and radicals. Both views share an erroneous and ahistorical conception of Islam as an unchanging and monolithic entity. Surveying both its social origins and its intellectual genealogy, Al-Azmeh rethinks the relationship between Islam and the West, uncovering a rich actual history of interaction. In this expanded new edition, the author examines the discourse surrounding Islamism and irrationalism after 9/11.

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Secularism in the Arab World

Contexts, Ideas and Consequences

By: Aziz al-Azmeh

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Secularism in the Arab World

Contexts, Ideas and Consequences

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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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Edinburgh University Press

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147444749X

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Arabic Thought and Islamic Societies (RLE Politics of Islam)

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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Arabic Thought and Islamic Societies (RLE Politics of Islam)

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

This is a study of the structure and composition of the official learning current in medieval Arabic culture. This comprises natural sciences both exoteric and esoteric (medicine, alchemy, astrology and others), traditional and religious sciences (such as theology, exegesis and grammar), philosophical sciences such as metaphysics and ethics, in addition to technical disciplines like political theory and medicine, and other fields of intellectual endeavour. The book identifies and develops a number of conceptual elements common to the various areas of official Arabic scientific discourse, and shows how these elements integrate these disparate sciences into an historical epistemic unity. The specific profile of each of these different sciences is described, in terms of its conceptual content, but especially with reference to its historical circumstances. These are seen to be embodied in a number of institutional supports, both intellectual and social: paradigms, schools of thought, institutions of learning, pedagogic techniques, and a body of professionals, all of which combine to form definite, albeit ever renewed, traditions of learning. Finally, an attempt is made to relate Arabic scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages to patterns of scientific and political authority. First published in 1986.

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1134607539

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Times of History

Universal Topics in Islamic Historiography

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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Times of History

Universal Topics in Islamic Historiography

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

This is a collection of essays on current questions of historiography, illustrated with reference to Islamic historiography. The main concerns are conceptions of time and temporality, the uses of the past, historical periodisation, historical categorisation, and the constitution of historical objects, not least those called "civilisation" and "Islam". One of the aims of the book is to apply to Islamic materials the standard conceptual equipment used in historical study, and to exercise a large-scale comparativist outlook.

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Central European University Press

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Islams and Modernities

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity

Allah and His People

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity

Allah and His People

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

Based on epigraphic and other material evidence as well as more traditional literary sources and critical review of the extensive relevant scholarship, this book presents a comprehensive and innovative reconstruction of the rise of Islam as a religion and imperial polity. It reassesses the development of the imperial monotheism of the New Rome, and considers the history of the Arabs as an integral part of Late Antiquity, including Arab ethnogenesis and the emergence of what was to become Muslim monotheism, comparable with the emergence of other monotheisms from polytheistic systems. Topics discussed include the emergence and development of the Muhammadan polity and its new cultic deity and associated ritual, the constitution of the Muslim canon, and the development of early Islam as an imperial religion. Intended principally for scholars of Late Antiquity, Islamic studies and the history of religions, the book opens up many novel directions for future research.

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Cambridge University Press

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Ibn Khaldun

A Reinterpretation

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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Ibn Khaldun

A Reinterpretation

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

A reinterpretation of Ibn Khaldun, 14th-century Arabic philosopher, historian and politician.

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Islamic Law (RLE Politics of Islam)

Social and Historical Contexts

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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Islamic Law (RLE Politics of Islam)

Social and Historical Contexts

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

This book underlines the mutability of Islamic law and attempts to relate its substantive and institutional varieties and transformations to social, political, economic and other historical circumstances. The studies in the book range from discussion of the received wisdom in Islamic law to studies of legal institutions and the theoretical means employed by Islamic law for the accommodation of changing historical circumstances. First published in 1988.

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Ibn Khaldūn

An Essay in Reinterpretation

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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Ibn Khaldūn

An Essay in Reinterpretation

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

Since its publication in 1981, this book has established itself as the major new interpretation of the historical concept of Ibn Khaldûn, the great figure of Arab-Islamic letters and of historical thought overall--a figure generally thought to be on a par with Thucydides, Vico, Herder and others of similar stature. The author has eschewed the ahistorical interpretations to which Ibn Khaldûn has normally been subjected, both by authors who have sought unduly to modernise his thought, and by those who sought to freeze it in stereotypical models of Islamic philosophy. Ibn Khaldûn is not only a true historical source of his time; he is also taken as the unchallenged sociological and cultural interpreter of medieval North Africa and much of medieval and modern Arab-Islamic culture as well. The validity of his discourse is considered to be so universal as to confer upon his ideas the status of progenitor--or, at least, anticipator--of a great variety of modern ideas.

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The Arabs and Islam in Late Antiquity

A Critique of Approaches to Arabic Sources

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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The Arabs and Islam in Late Antiquity

A Critique of Approaches to Arabic Sources

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

This study is a critique of Arabic textual sources for the history of the Arabs in late antique times, during the centuries immediately preceding Muhammad and up to and including the Umayyad period. Its purpose is to consider the value and relevance of these sources for the reconstruction of the social, political, cultural and religious history of the Arabs as they were still pagans, and to reconstruct the emergence of Muhammadan and immediately post-Muhammadan religion and polity. For this religion (including the composition and canonisation of the Qur'an), the label Paleo-Islam has been coined, in order to lend historical specificity to this particular period, distinguishing it from what came before and what was to come later, all the while indicating continuities that do not, in themselves, belie the specificity attributed to this period of very rapid change. This is argued further in Aziz Al-Azmeh's The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allah and His People (Cambridge University Press, 2014), to which this book is both a companion and a technical preface. Al-Azmeh illustrates his arguments through examination of orality and literacy, transmission, ancient Arabic poetry, the corpus of Arab heroic lore (ayyam), the early narrative, the Qur'an, and other literary sources. The work includes a very extensive bibliography of the works cited. This is the first book in the Gerlach Press series Theories and Paradigms of Islamic Studies.

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Secularism in the Arab World

Contexts, Ideas and Consequences

By: al-Azmeh Aziz al-Azmeh

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Contexts, Ideas and Consequences

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The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity

Allah and His People

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Times of History

Universal Topics in Islamic Historiography

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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Universal Topics in Islamic Historiography

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Ibn Khaldūn

An Essay in Reinterpretation

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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An Essay in Reinterpretation

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The Arabs and Islam in Late Antiquity

A Critique of Approaches to Arabic Sources

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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A Critique of Approaches to Arabic Sources

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Ibn Khaldun

A Reinterpretation

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A Reinterpretation

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A reinterpretation of Ibn Khaldun, 14th-century Arabic philosopher, historian and politician.

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Muslim Kingship

Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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Muslim Kingship

Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

This study outlines the main features of the theory and practice of political power in Muslim polities in the Middle Ages against the background of Near Eastern traditions of kingship, particularly Hellenistic, Persian, and Byzantine. The early Arab-Muslim polity is treated as an integral part of late Antiquity and the book explores the way in which older traditions were transposed into Islamic form and given specifically Islamic textual sanction.

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