RT Book
T1 Islams and modernities
A1 ʿAẓma, ʿAzīz al- 1947-
LA English
PP London u.a.
PB Verso Books
YR 2009
ED 3. ed.
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/608336785
AB Challenging the similarly romantic, a historic and irreconcilable notions of Islamic and Western cultures, this book cuts through conventional wisdom and common cliches to highlight the plurality and historicity of both. For Aziz Al-Azmeh, the Orientalist and racist view of Islam is nothing but the mirror-image of the myths propagated by the Islamic fundamentalists and radicals. In this book he demonstrates both views share an erroneous and an historical conception of Islam as an unchanging and monolithic entity. Moreover, this analysis dissects the mutual implication of both the dominant Western discourse and its supposed primary opponent, postmodernism, in this form of essentialism. There is no one, homogeneous Islam, and this book highlights the diversity and plurality of forms of the Muslim tradition, seeking to understand historically the phenomenon of fundamentalism, amongst other strands, as a profoundly modern ideology. Challenging the stereotypes and legends of both its opponents and proponents, the book traces how political Islam breaks with core elements of the Muslim tradition and, at the same time, roots many of its concepts in European reactionary and romantic thought
NO Previous ed.: 1993. - Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BP163
SN 9781844673858
SN 9781844673841
SN 1844673855
K1 Islamic fundamentalism
K1 Islam : 20th century
K1 Islam : 21st century
K1 Islam and politics
K1 Islam
K1 Fundamentalismus
K1 Religion