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Les Musulmans : Un Cauchemar Ou Une Force Pour L’Europe ?, Hichem Karoui, Arno Tausch Apr 2011

Les Musulmans : Un Cauchemar Ou Une Force Pour L’Europe ?, Hichem Karoui, Arno Tausch

Hichem Karoui

This is a comparative study related to European and Global Islam, based on documented- social- anthropological analysis, and quantitative data from the European Social Survey and the World Values Survey. Can we really say that Islam is not faulty as for the exclusion of European Muslims? Or is it only biased European policies toward Islam? How can we explain the radicalization of some European Muslims?

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Foundations Of Modern Arab Identity, Stephen Sheehi Apr 2004

Foundations Of Modern Arab Identity, Stephen Sheehi

Stephen Sheehi

Stephen Sheehi's pioneering book seeks a decolonial method and theory in exploring the epistemology of the Arab Renaissance (al-nahdah al-'arabiyah), a period that defines "Arab modernity." Using psychoanalytic and post-structuralist theory, Sheehi looks at texts by writers such as Butrus al-Bustani, Salim al-Bustani, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, Farah Antun, Muhammad Abduh and others. His analysis deconstructs popular and academic perceptions--especially prevalent after 9/11--that Arabs have failed to internalize modernity. Sheehi's analysis seeks to find a common epistemology scaffolding of analytic categories such as "Christian secularists," "Islamic modernists" and "reformers," and "Arab nationalists." He does so by understanding the paradigms …

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