Narratives of Arab Secularism: Politics, Feminism and Religion

ISBN-13: 9780367745288 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 296 str.

Youssef M. Choueiri

Opis

This book offers a new interpretation of the rich narratives of Arab secularism, contending that secularism as a set of ideas and a social movement is destined to loom large on the political and legal horizon of most Arab states.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Theoretical and Historical Narrativities  1. The Arab Itinerary of Machiavelli, Alfieri and Gramsci  2. Cultural and Political Lineages of Arab Secularism  Part 2: the Machiavellian Moment  3. Points of Departure  4. Arab Women’s Agency  5. Political Activism and Secular Deism  Part 3: The Alfierian Moment  6. Science and Progress  7. Religious Injunctions and Secular Laws  Part 4: The Gramscian Moment  8. Reinventing Secularism  9. Civil Society  Conclusion

O autorze

Youssef M. Choueiri is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. He served as Reader (Associate Professor) in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter and the University of Manchester before joining the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies as Professor of History in 2015. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Arab History and the Nation-State, A Companion to the History of the Middle East and Islamic Fundamentalism . His research interests span a cluster of inter-related Middle Eastern, Arab and Islamic topics: the emergence and development of modern Arab historiography, the notion of the nation-state, Arab nationalism, Middle Eastern modernity and Islamism.