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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salama, Mohammad R. (Author)
Format: Book
Published: London : I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd , c2011
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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