RT Book
T1 Global secularity / Volume 2 The Middle East and North Africa / edited by Florian Zemmin, Neguin Yavari, Markus Dressler, and Nurit Stadler
T2 Global Secularity. A Sourcebook
JF Global secularity a sourcebook
A2 Zemmin, Florian 1981-
A2 Yavari, Neguin
A2 Dreßler, Markus
A2 Stadler, Nurit
LA English
PP Berlin Boston
PB De Gruyter
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1911657054
AB This volume collects reflections on secularity from the Middle East and North Africa. To highlight proximate connections as well as resonances with debates elsewhere, it includes premodern contributions from the region as well as Jewish thought from Europe that have provided significant references for modern appropriations of secularity. The texts, for the most part previously untranslated, reflect commonalities within the region as well as its great diversity. Thus, while Islam is a common reference for most of our authors, the selections point to its varied invocations in the interest of differing political ends. Others write from a Christian or Jewish perspective, or subscribe to non-religious intellectual traditions. They range from premodern Muslim jurisprudents and philosophers to Ottoman statesmen, Arab socialist and nationalist intellectuals of the interwar period, Iranian revolutionaries, Israeli novelists, and finally, post-secular intellectuals, lay and religious, predominantly from the former Islamic heartland: modern Arab states and Iran. Several introductions weave together the swathe of topics raised in the discussions, beginning with a schematic presentation of the concerns that undergird the volume's organization
SN 9783111254067
SN 9783111254340
K1 RELIGION / Atheism
K1 Global History
K1 Secularism
DO 10.1515/9783111254067