Arab Modernities is a critical interrogation of some of the ideologies of so-called modernity and modernization in the post-colonial Arab world, with a specific focus on three political ideologies: liberalism, nationalism, and Islamism. By providing a critical analysis of the work of major Arab intellectuals/activists (namely, Abdallah Laroui, Mohamed Abed al-Jabri, and Abdessalam Yassine), Arab Modernities brings together three political ideologies that have hitherto been considered competing and even incompatible in the Arab world. This much-needed intervention is also best understood as an inquiry into one of the central paradoxes of post-colonial Arab societies (and Middle Eastern societies more generally): the rise of Islamism and Islamist fundamentalism at a time when global neo-liberalism has declared the end of history . Arab Modernities is a sophisticated attempt to name contemporary Islamism and Arab nationalism and liberalism - to delineate the social, cultural, economic, and political conditions under which they first emerged, evolved, and ultimately failed, and thereby to shed light on Arab-Islamic societies at the current historical conjuncture. Arab Modernities argues against facile analyses that attribute the rise and subsequent decline of liberalism and nationalism, as well as the current rise of Islamism, to purely cultural, religious, or ideological factors and provides a rigorous, complex materialist critique, where Arab ideologies of modernity are placed in the context of the particular historical formation within which they have developed and to which they have responded.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-13
9781433105340
eBay Product ID (ePID)
115928064
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Regional History, Political Science
Author
Jaafar Aksikas
Publication Name
Arab Modernities: Islamism, Nationalism, and Liberalism in the Post-Colonial Arab World
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
177 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
230mm
Item Width
160mm
Volume
1
Item Weight
280g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jaafar Aksikas
Series Title
Postcolonial Studies
Topic
Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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