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  • Islamic Ethos and the Specter of Modernity

    by Farzin Vahdat ...
    Series series Anthem Middle East Studies
    Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominent Muslim thinkers and political leaders with reference to some of the most significant markers of modernity.This study closely examines the works of nine major Islamic thinkers in twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Mohammad Iqbal, Abul Ala Maududi , ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Islamic Ethos and the Specter of Modernity

    by Farzin Vahdat ...
    Series series Anthem Middle East Studies
    Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominent Muslim thinkers and political leaders with reference to some of the most significant markers of modernity.This study closely examines the works of nine major Islamic thinkers in twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Mohammad Iqbal, Abul Ala Maududi , ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Islamic Ethos and the Specter of Modernity

    by Farzin Vahdat ...
    Series series Key Issues in Modern Sociology
    Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominent Muslim thinkers and political leaders. Chapter by chapter, the book undertakes a close textual analysis of the works of Mohammad Iqbal, Abul Ala Maududi , Sayyid Qutb , Fatima Mernissi, Mehdi Haeri Yazdi, Mohammad Mojtaehd Shabestari, Mohammad Khatami ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History

    by Ramin Jahanbegloo, Ali M. Ansari, Touraj Atbaki, Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Homa Katouzian, Farhad Khosrokhavar, Mojtaba Mahdavi, Afshin Matin-Asghari, Farzaneh Milani, Haideh Moghissi0, Mohsen Mottaghi1, Saeed Paivandi2, Nasrin Rahimieh3, Peyman Vahabzadeh4, Ali Mirsepassi5, Farzin Vahdat6 ...
    In Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History, Jahanbegloo and contributors examine the role of Iranian intellectuals in the history of Iranian modernity. They trace the contributions of intellectuals in the construction of national identity and the Iranian democratic debate, analyzing how intellectuals balanced indebtedness to the West with the issue of national ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Islam and the West

    Critical Perspectives on Modernity

    by Ömer Çaha, Wadood Hamad, Douglas Morris, Haroun Er-Rashid, Nissim Rejwan, Alexis De Tocqueville, Farzin Vahdat, Sandra Halperin, Lauren Langman, Michael J. Thompson ...
    Series series Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture
    Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th the topic of Islam's political, cultural, religious, and spiritual tendencies and beliefs has been thrust into the spotlight. However, most discussions concerning Islam's relation to the West tend to simplify and distort the intricate nature of the problem. The essays in Islam and the West approach the interactions of Islam, the West, and modernity ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Civil Society and Democracy in Iran

    by Payam Akhavan, Sohrab Behdad, Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Yousefi Eshkevari, Akbar Ganji, Farhad Khosrokhavar, Amin Reza Koohestani, Mojtaba Mahdavi, Omid Memarian, Haideh Moghissi, Farhad Nomani, Saeed Rahnema, Shadi Sadr, Victoria Tahmasebi, Peyman Vahabzadeh, Nader Hashemi, Farzin Vahdat ...
    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    In this timely, informative edited volume, major Iranian scholars and civic actors address some of the most pressing questions about Iranian civil society and the process of democratization in Iran. They describe the role of Iranian civil society in the process of transition to democracy in Iran and offer insight about the enduring legacy of previous social and political movements—starting with ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Iran

    Between Tradition and Modernity

    by Roksana Bahramitash, Sohrab Behdad, Jamsheed Behnam, Hamid Dabashi, Nader Hashemi, Mazyar Lotfalian, Monica M. Ringer, Ahmad Sadri, Sussan Siavoshi, Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Majid Tehranian, Farzin Vahdat ...
    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    The Iranian Revolution represented to intellectuals and professionals the potential of spiritual values to triumph over the great power of economic imperialism. Yet out of this revolution has emerged an identity crisis that touches Islamic ideological heights and reaches down to the very ground of Islamic practice. The contributors to this collection, experts on Iranian cultural and political ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

    by Saba Mahmood ...
    Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba ... Read more

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  • Islam and Pakistan's Political Culture

    by Farhan Mujahid Chak ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    This book explores the ideological rivalry which is fuelling political instability in Muslim polities, discussing this in relation to Pakistan. It argues that the principal dilemma for Muslim polities is how to reconcile modernity and tradition. It discusses existing scholarship on the subject, outlines how Muslim political thought and political culture have developed over time, and then relates ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Islamic Studies

    From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism

    by Bruce B. Lawrence ...
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  • The Middle East

    The Politics of the Sacred and Secular

    by Professor Shahrough Akhavi ...
    Series series World Political Theories
    Amidst recent hype about events in the Middle East, there have been few attempts to get below the surface and develop a fuller understanding of what politics means there. The Middle East: The Politics of the Sacred and Secular redresses this balance and provides essential historical and theoretical context.In this book, Shahrough Akhavi shows that the way people think about politics in the Middle ... Read more

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