The Challenge of Modernity - The Quest for Authenticity in the Arab World

This book examines the central aspects of modernity and the underlying factors at work in the process of modernization.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Preface; Introduction Chapter 2 Understanding Modernization: Modernization Theory; The Marxian Model of Development; The Weberian Model of Development; The Eclipse of Substantive Rationality; The Quest for Order; The Modernization of the Arab World: Prelude; Voices of Reform

About the author

By Louay M. Safi

Product details

• Authors: Louay M. Safi, Safi Louay M.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.1994
• EAN: 9780819193759
• ISBN: 978-0-8191-9375-9
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 218 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 413 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Cultural Studies, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Middle East, Islamic Studies, General & world history, General and world history, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Other Geographical Groupings, Oceans & Seas, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Islamic