Contemporary Arab Thought

Informationen zum Autor Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' is the holder of the Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta. His many books include The Contemporary Arab Reader on Political Islam (Pluto, 2010), Myth and Reality in the Contemporary Islamist Movement (Pluto, 2005), and The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought (Blackwells, 2006). Klappentext Contemporary Arab Thought is a complex term, encompassing a constellation of social, political, religious and ideological ideas that have evolved over the past two hundred years - ideas that represent the leading positions of the social classes in modern and contemporary Arab societies.Distinguished Islamic scholar Ibrahim Abu-Rabi' addresses such questions as the Shari'ah, human rights, civil society, secularism and globalization. This is complimented by a focused discussion on the writings of key Arab thinkers who represent established trends of thought in the Arab world, including Muhammad 'Abid al-Jabiri, Adallah Laroui, Muhammad al-Ghazali, Rashid al-Ghannoushi, Qutatnine Zurayk, Mahdi 'Amil and many others.Before 1967, some Arab countries launched hopeful programmes of modernisation. After the 1967 defeat with Israel, many of these hopes were dashed. This book retraces the Arab world's aborted modernity of recent decades. Abu-Rabi' explores the development of contemporary Arab thought against the historical background of the rise of modern Islamism, and the impact of the West on the modern Arab world. Zusammenfassung First comprehensive book on the history and development of Arab philosophy! tackling major issues and key thinkers

Product details

• Authors: Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi, Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi'
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2003
• EAN: 9780745321691
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2169-1
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 227 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, RELIGION / Islam / Theology, Middle East, Islamic Studies, Political science & theory, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Political science and theory, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Religious & theocratic ideologies, Social groups: religious groups and communities