From Contemporary Arab Thought
Mostly a stupid book
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Contents
PART ONE
THEMATIC SECTION
Introduction: Major Themes of the Book
1. The Scope and Limitation of Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History
2. Contemporary Arab Intellectual Trends
3. Secularism and its Hazards: The Recent Debate in the Arab World
4. Contemporary Arab Views of Secularism
5. Formation of Contemporary Identities: Nationalism and Islamism
in Contemporary Arab Thought
6. Traditional Values, Social Change and the Contemporary Arab Personality
7. Globalization: A Contemporary Islamic Response?
8. Contemporary Arab View of Globalization
PART TWO
THINKERS’ SECTION
1. Rashid Ghannoushi [of Tunisia] and the Questions of Shari’ah and Civil Society
2. Muslim Self-Criticism in Contemporary Arab Thought:
The Case of Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali (1916-1996)
3. Islam and Muslims in Crisis
4. Toward a Critical Arab Reason: The Contributions of Muhammad ‘Abid al-Jabiri
5. Critical Arab Reason
6. Costantine Zurayk and the Search for Arab Nationalism
7. Mahdi ‘Amil and the Unfinished Project of Arab Marxism
8. Abdallah Laroui: From Objective Marxism to Liberal Etatism
Author
Context
2003 book
Thesis
Methodology
Key Terms
Criticisms and Questions
Notes
-Arab Marxism/leftist current
-Egyptian Marxist Ghali Shukri says Arab marxists failed to articulate their vision because of their upper bourgeoisie class background, police repression, and widespread illiteracy.
-Egyptian Marxist Ahmed Sadiq Sa’d economic and social history of Egypt
-thinkers unable to refuse dictates of orthodox communism.
-Left took nationalist issue more seriously after Israel, Stalin death and Arab nationalist regimes of the 1950s.
-Ba’athism and the rule of Qasim were oxymoronic.
-working class failed to develop consciousness along Marxist/socialist lines and chose to dwell instead on religious identity. / eventually left intelligenstia were confined to exiles.
Pro-Turath leftist intellectuals: TayyibTizini, Hussain Muruwa, Hadi al-Ulwi, Tawfiq Sallum, Mahmud Amin al-Alim
Anti-turath leftist intellectuals: Salama Musa, Mahdi Amil, Sadiq Jalal al-’Azm, Adonis, Fawwaz Tarabulsi, Mahmud Amin al-Alim, Yassim al-Hafiz, Abdallah Laroui
Egyptian state left thinkers: Mahmud amin al-Amin, Lewis Awad, Salh abd al-Sabur, Sa’d al-Din Wahbah, ‘abd al-Azim al-aqqad, Ghali Shukri, and Sherif Hitatah