Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 274 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9780755608089
Series Statement:
Library of Middle East history 22
Content:
Prologue : thinking about Islam and the West -- 1. Fact or fiction? How the writing of history became a discourse of conquest -- 2. Postcolonial battles over Ibn Khaldūn : intellectual history and the politics of exclusion -- 3. How did Islam make it into Hegel's philosophy of world history? -- 4. The emergence of Islam as a historical category in British colonial thought -- 5. Disciplining Islam : colonial Egypt, a case study -- Epilogue : historicizing the global, politicizing Islam, giving violence a new name.
Content:
"As the events and aftermath of 9/11 have shown, the relationship between Islam and the West is deeply troubled. Here Mohammad Salama calls for a new understanding of Islam as a historical condition that has existed in relationship to the West since the seventh century. He compares the Arab-Islamic and European traditions of historical thought since the early modern period, focusing on the watershed moments that informed their ideas of intellectual history and perceptions of one another. Islam, he argues, has played a major role in enabling and positioning Western historiography at key points, leaving palpable imprints on Islamic historiography in the process. Focusing on Ibn Khaldun, the complexities of orientalism and modernity, and recent European as well as Arab writings on these themes, this book is essential for all those interested in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Western and Islamic philosophies of history, and modernity. -- Publisher description."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-265) and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780764504
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848850057
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9780755608089
