Offering a unique analysis of Islamist ideology, "Islamism and the West "attempts to explain how- and why-mainstream Islamist leaders have, for the past century, developed and canonized theories which depict theWest as engaged in a sophisticated conspiracy to undermine Muslim identity by cultural means, while morallycollapsing and yearning for the spiritual salvation brought by Muslim migrants.
This book demonstrates how seemingly triumphalist Islamist writings served, in fact, to legitimize pragmatic concessions undertaken by Islamists from cooperating with regimes allied with the...
Offering a unique analysis of Islamist ideology, "Islamism and the West "attempts to explain how- and why-mainstream Islamist leaders have, for the...
Zionism in Arab discourses introduces a groundbreaking thesis to the study of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Through analyses of hundreds of texts written by Arab Islamists and liberals from the late nineteenth century to the 'Arab Spring', the book demonstrates that the Zionist enterprise has played the dual function of an enemy and a mentor. Arab Islamists and liberals alike discovered respectively in Zionism and in Israeli society - or more precisely, in Zionism and Israeli society as constructed by them to fit their specific agendas - qualities they sought to implement in their societies,...
Zionism in Arab discourses introduces a groundbreaking thesis to the study of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Through analyses of hundreds of texts written...
The modernist-apologetic approach to the relation between revelation and science and politics has been a central part of Arab discourses on the future of Muslim societies for over a century. This approach introduced historical and theological narratives and interpretative mechanisms that contextualize reason and freedom in Islamic terms to argue that, unlike with Christianity, it is possible for Muslim societies to be technologically and politically advanced without forfeiting revelation as an all-encompassing, legally-binding guide.
Scientific and Political Freedom in Islam...
The modernist-apologetic approach to the relation between revelation and science and politics has been a central part of Arab discourses on the fut...
The modernist-apologetic approach to the relation between revelation and science and politics has been a central part of Arab discourses on the future of Muslim societies for over a century. This approach introduced historical and theological narratives and interpretative mechanisms that contextualize reason and freedom in Islamic terms to argue that, unlike with Christianity, it is possible for Muslim societies to be technologically and politically advanced without forfeiting revelation as an all-encompassing, legally-binding guide.
'Scientific and Political Freedom in Islam'...
The modernist-apologetic approach to the relation between revelation and science and politics has been a central part of Arab discourses on the fut...
