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Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History

Author: Ibrahim M Abu Rabi

'Contemporary Arab Thought' is a complex term, encompassing a constellation of social, political, religious and ideological ideas that have evolved over the past two hundred years -- ideas that represent the leading positions of the social classes in modern and contemporary Arab societies. Distinguished Islamic scholar Ibrahim Abu-Rabi' addresses such questions as the Shari'ah, human rights, civil society, secularism and globalization. This is complimented by a focused discussion on the writings of key Arab thinkers who represent established trends of thought in the Arab world, including Muhammad 'Abid al-Jabiri, Adallah Laroui, Muhammad al-Ghazali, Rashid al-Ghannoushi, Qutatnine Zurayk, Mahdi 'Amil and many others. Before 1967, some Arab countries launched hopeful programmes of modernisation. After the 1967 defeat with Israel, many of these hopes were dashed. This book retraces the Arab world's aborted modernity of recent decades. Abu-Rabi' explores the development of contemporary Arab thought against the historical background of the rise of modern Islamism, and the impact of the West on the modern Arab world.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Themes
1	The Scope and Limitation of Post-1967 Arab Thought	43
2	Contemporary Arab Intellectual Trends	63
3	Secularism and its Hazards: The Recent Debate in the Arab World	93
4	Contemporary Arab Philosophical Views of Secularism	114
5	Formation of Contemporary Identities: Nationalism and Islamism in Contemporary Arab Thought	126
6	Traditional Values, Social Change, and the Contemporary Arab Personality	150
7	Globalization: A Contemporary Islamic Response?	164
8	Contemporary Arab Thought and Globalization	185
Pt. 2	Thinkers
9	Rashid al-Ghannushi and the Questions of Shari'ah and Civil Society	203
10	Muslim Self-Criticism in Contemporary Arab Thought: The Case of Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali	223
11	Islam and Muslims in Crisis	242
12	Towards a Critical Arab Reason: The Contributions of Muhammad 'Abid al-Jabiri	256
13	Towards Modern Arab Reason	279
14	Costantine Zurayk and the Search for Arab Nationalism	296
15	Mahdi 'Amil and the Unfinished Project of Arab Marxist Philosophy	318
16	Abdallah Laroui: From Objective Marxism to Liberal Etatism	344
17	Conclusions	370
	Notes	375
	Bibliography	453
	Index	482

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