1st Edition
Narratives of Arab Secularism Politics, Feminism and Religion
Introduction Part 1: Theoretical and Historical Narrativities 1. The Arab Itinerary of Machiavelli, Alfieri and Gramsci 2. Cultural and Political Lineages of Arab Secularism Part 2: the Machiavellian Moment 3. Points of Departure 4. Arab Women’s Agency 5. Political Activism and Secular Deism Part 3: The Alfierian Moment 6. Science and Progress 7. Religious Injunctions and Secular Laws Part 4: The Gramscian Moment 8. Reinventing Secularism 9. Civil Society Conclusion
Biography
Youssef M. Choueiri is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. He served as Reader (Associate Professor) in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter and the University of Manchester before joining the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies as Professor of History in 2015. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Arab History and the Nation-State, A Companion to the History of the Middle East and Islamic Fundamentalism . His research interests span a cluster of inter-related Middle Eastern, Arab and Islamic topics: the emergence and development of modern Arab historiography, the notion of the nation-state, Arab nationalism, Middle Eastern modernity and Islamism.
