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Cultural Schizophrenia: Islamic Societies Confronting the West (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East)

By Daryush Shayegan, John Howe (Translator)
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By Daryush Shayegan, John Howe (Translator)
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Professor Daryush Shayegan's book is a major contribution to what is perhaps the most critical debate within the Muslim world today: the relationship between its own culture and the influence of Western modernity.
Based on examples ranging from Iran to Morocco, the author portrays a society he defines as peripheral--bound by a slavish adherence to its own glorified history, its "Tradition"--yet facing an external reality that derives from the West. The meeting of these two incompatible world...

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