1st Edition

Islam and the Orientalist World-system

By Khaldoun Samman, Mazhar Al-Zo'by Copyright 2008
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

Featuring Immanuel Wallerstein, Joseph Massad, Marnia Lazreg, and other well-known and emerging new authors, this book seeks a more accurate understanding of Islam and Islamic societies' role and relations to global cultural and economic realities. The book confronts a trend today of analyzing Islam as a "cultural system" that stands outside of, and even predates, modernity. The authors see this... Read more
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Biography

Samman, Khaldoun; Al-Zo'by, Mazhar