Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Authenticity in the Middle East

by Roel Meijer

Overview

Presents the views of leading Arab intellectuals from countries from Morocco to the Gulf who discuss their own personal and professional perspectives on cosmopolitanism in the Middle East.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700710560
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/26/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I Cosmopolitanism in the Middle East; Chapter 1 Cosmopolitanism and the Middle East, Sami Zubaida; Chapter 2 Cosmopolitanism: assumed alienation, Stéphane Yerasimos; Part II Personal itineraries; Chapter 3 From an Islamic upbringing to a cosmopolitan perspective: a personal odyssey, El-Sayed Yassin; Chapter 4 From localism to cosmopolitanism: a Bahreini perspective, Munira al-Fadhel; Chapter 5 The cultural impact of the left in Syria and Palestine: a personal view, Hamida Na’ana; Part III Modernist Islam, cosmopolitanism and authenticity; Chapter 6 The modernisation of Islam or the Islamisation of modernity, Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid; Chapter 7 Islamism: modernisation of Islam or Islamisation of knowledge, Ahmad S. Moussalli; Chapter 8 Islamic movements and authenticity: barriers to development, Ridwan al-Sayyid; Chapter 9 Authenticity, modernity and the Islamic movement in Tunisia, Salaheddine Jourchi; Chapter 10 Towards an objective, relative and rational Islamic discourse, Laith Kubba; Part IV Nationalism, cosmopolitanism and authenticity; Chapter 11 Universality, modernity and identity: the case of Morocco, Abdellah Labdaoui; Chapter 12 Cosmopolitanism and cultural specificity: the case of Jordan, Schirin H. Fathi; Chapter 13 The Egyptian national identity and pan-Arabism: variations and generations, Ahmed Abdalla; Chapter 14 Cosmopolitanism and cultural autarky in Egypt, Mohamed Sayyid Said;