Critical Thinking
Sadik J. Al-Azm
Occidentalism, Conspiracy and Taboo. Collected Essays on Islam and Politics
Volume 4
2019
Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2016) was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, Secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. This fourth collection of his essays includes: - Syria in Revolt (2014) - Experience or “Regime of Truth”? About Translation, Arabic and the Postmodern (2014) - Orientalism of the Worst Kind (2015) - The Shari‘a from a Secular Perspective (2015) - Crossing Borders: Orientalism, lslamism and ...
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Sadik J. Al-Azm
The Struggle for the Meaning of Islam. Collected Essays on Islam and Politics.
Set, Volumes 1-4
2019
Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2016) was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals and an internationally respected scholar and political commentator who offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on issues surrounding Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. He was recognised as a principled defender of human rights and has been the main ethical reference for the Syrian revolution. Al-Azm was educated at the American University Beirut, and at Yale in modern Euro...
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Abdel-Hakim Ourghi
Reform of Islam:
Forty Theses for an Islamic Ethics in the 21st Century
2019
Abdel-Hakim Ourghi’s Reform of Islam is an open indictment of prevailing conservative Islam which insists on the absolute subjugation of the body and mind of all Muslims. The author seeks a humanist understanding of Islam and aims to interpret Islam in today’s terms. He argues against the historical alienation and transfiguration that still shape the collective consciousness of Muslims in the 21st century. Using critical analysis and logic, the author aims to reveal the true core of Islam. Ourghi’s 40 Theses include: - The ...
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Sadik J. Al-Azm
On Fundamentalisms: Collected Essays on Islam and Politics
Volume 1, with a Foreword by Stefan Wild
2014
Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2016) was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. On Fundamentalisms includes essays on: - Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered - Islam and the Science-Religion Debates in Modern Times - The Struggle for the Meaning of Islam - What is Islamism? - The Takfir Syllogism...
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Sadik J. Al-Azm
Islam – Submission and Disobedience
Collected Essays on Islam and Politics Vol. 2
2014
Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2026) was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. Islam – Submission and Disobedience includes essays on: - The Importance of Being Earnest About Salman Rushdie - Is the Fatwa a Fatwa? - The Tragedy of Satan - Satanic Verses Post Festum: The Global, the Local, the Literary - Universalizing from Particulars...
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Sadik J. Al-Azm
Is Islam Secularizable? Challenging Political and Religious Taboos
Collected Essays on Islam and Politics Vol. 3
2014
Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2016) was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. Is Islam Secularizable? includes essays on: - Civil Society and the Arab Spring - Orientalism and Conspiracy - Ground Zero Revisited, - Islam and Secular Humanism - Trends in Arab Thought - Palestinian Zionism - Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse...
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Sadik J. Al-Azm
Critique of Religious Thought. First English Translation of naqd al-fikr ad-dini
with a new introduction by the author
2014
Sadik al-Azm's Critique of Religious Thought set off one of the the great Arab intellectual uproars of the twentieth century, leading to the author's imprisonment and trial for mocking religion and inciting sectarian conflict. As in his earlier Self-Criticism after the Defeat, Al-Azm takes on the taboos of the age and their sponsors: the religious elites. In this book he attempts to awaken the Arab mind from its dogmatic slumber, leading it out of the Middle Ages and into a modern world characterized by science and...
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Sadik J. Al-Azm
Secularism, Fundamentalism, and the Struggle for the Meaning of Islam.
2014
*** Please note:*** This 3 vols set of collected essays has been replaced by a 4 vols set: ISBN 9783959940795 https://gerlachpress.com/9783959940795 Sadik Jalal al-Azm (1934-2016) was an internationally respected scholar and political commentator who has offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on issues surrounding Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. He is recognised as a principled defender of human rights and has been the main ethical referen...
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