Islam, orientalism and intellectual history : modernity and the politics of exclusion since Ibn Khaldun
As the events and aftermath of 9/11 have shown, the relationship between Islam and the West is deeply troubled. Here Mohammad Salama calls for a new understanding of Islam as a historical condition that has existed in relationship to the West since the seventh century. He compares the Arab-Islamic a...
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London :
I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Fact or fiction? How the writing of history became a discourse of conquest
- 2. Postcolonial battles over Ibn Khaldun: intellectual history and the politics of exclusion
- 3. How did Islam make it into Hegel's philosophy of world history?
- 4. The emergence of Islam as a historical category in British colonial thought
- 5. Disciplining Islam: colonial Egypt, a case study Epilogue: historicizing the global, politicizing Islam, giving violence a new name