Author: ABDELWAHAB MEDDEB
Title: Islam and its discontents
Description: 2003. Pp: 241. Abdelwahab Meddab's book has been a phenomenal success in France, greeted as a crucial contribution to the debate around the West's relationship with Islam. An 'essay' in the classic sense of the word, in its brief compass Meddab analyses Islam's relationship with the modern world and its fatal weakness of fundamentalism.Ranging from Medina at the time of the Prophet Mohammed through the Baghdad of the Abbasids, the impact of the Crusades and the beginnings of wahhabism in the 18th century and from Nietasche to Goethe and the impact of 11 September, Meddeb shows how Islam's tendancy towards fundamentalism has been exacerbated by the developements of modernity. Powerfull even-handed, the book identifies both the weaknesses of Islam in relating to modernity, as well as the failings of the West in its dealing with the Islamic world.In all the outpouring of analysis since September 11, 2001, this book stands alongside a handful of others as a crucial text in understanding the world in which we now live. ISBN: 9780434011407. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780434011407
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Title: Islam and its discontents
Description: 2003. Pp: 241. Abdelwahab Meddab's book has been a phenomenal success in France, greeted as a crucial contribution to the debate around the West's relationship with Islam. An 'essay' in the classic sense of the word, in its brief compass Meddab analyses Islam's relationship with the modern world and its fatal weakness of fundamentalism.Ranging from Medina at the time of the Prophet Mohammed through the Baghdad of the Abbasids, the impact of the Crusades and the beginnings of wahhabism in the 18th century and from Nietasche to Goethe and the impact of 11 September, Meddeb shows how Islam's tendancy towards fundamentalism has been exacerbated by the developements of modernity. Powerfull even-handed, the book identifies both the weaknesses of Islam in relating to modernity, as well as the failings of the West in its dealing with the Islamic world.In all the outpouring of analysis since September 11, 2001, this book stands alongside a handful of others as a crucial text in understanding the world in which we now live. ISBN: 9780434011407. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780434011407
Price: EUR 6.50 = appr. US$ 7.06 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 81525
- Book number: 81525
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