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The Clash of Modernities: The Islamist Challenge to Arab, Jewish, and Turkish Nationalism - Couverture rigide

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Samman, Khaldoun

 
9781594516979: The Clash of Modernities: The Islamist Challenge to Arab, Jewish, and Turkish Nationalism
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1594516979 ISBN 13 : 9781594516979
Editeur : Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

To understand the Middle East we must also understand how the West produced a temporal narrative of world history in which westemers placed themselves on top and all others below them. In a landmark reinterpretation of Middle Eastern history, this book shows how Arabs, Muslims, Turks, and Jews absorbed, revised, yet remained loyal to this Western vision. Turkish Kemalism and Israeli Zionism, in their efforts to push their people forward, accepted the narrative almost wholeheartedly, eradicating what they perceived as 'archaic' characteristics of their Jewish and Turkish cultures. Arab nationalists negotiated a more culturally schizophrenic approach to appeasing the colonizer's gaze. But so too, Samman argues, did the Islamists who likewise wanted to improve their societies. But in order to modernize, Islamists prescribed the eradication of Western contamination and reintroduced the prophetic stage that they believe - if the colonizer and their local Arab coconspirators hadn't intervened - would have produced true civilization. Samman's account explains why Islamists broke more radically with the colonizer's insult. For all these nationalists gender would be used as the measuring device of how well they did in relation to the colonizer's gaze.

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À propos de l'auteur

Khaldoun Samman, Associate Professor of Sociology at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the author of Cities of God and Nationalism: Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome as Contested World Cities (Paradigm 2007) and co-editor of Islam and the Orientalist World-System (Paradigm 2008).

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1594516979
ISBN 13 
9781594516979
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Nombre de pages
272
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