1st Edition
Clash of Modernities The Making and Unmaking of the New Jew, Turk, and Arab and the Islamist Challenge
By Khaldoun Samman
Copyright 2011
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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To understand the Middle East we must also understand how the West produced a temporal narrative of world history in which westemers placed themselves on top and all others below them. In a landmark reinterpretation of Middle Eastern history, this book shows how Arabs, Muslims, Turks, and Jews absorbed, revised, yet remained loyal to this Western vision. Turkish Kemalism and Israeli Zionism, in... Read more
Preface; Part I: Seeing Through the Colonialist Gaze; Chapter 1: The Colonizer's Time Machine and the Discourse of "Becoming Modern" in the Middle East; Part II: The Rise of the Modernizing/Occidentalizing State; INTRODUCTION TO PART II: Anticolonialism in the Middle East and the Allure of the Eurocentric Project of Modernity; Chapter 2: The Anti-Semitic Gaze and the Making of the New Jew; Chapter 3: Turkish and Arab Time-Travelers from Ataturk to Nasser; Part III: The Other Side of the Colonialist Gaze: The Islamist Challenge; INTRODUCTION TO PART III: Anti-Eurocentric Islamism and the Persistence of the Colonizer's Gaze; Chapter 4: Muslim Time Travel Is Only Possible If We Cleanse the Orient From Western Toxins: The Islamist Strategy; Chapter 5: Time Travel is Only Possible if We Remake Our Women: Gender Identities Traveling East and West; Part IV: Producing New Ways of Seeing Global Difference; Chapter 6: Time Out: Letting Go of Occident/Orient Binaries.
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Samman, Khaldoun
