Arabs Face The Modern World: Religious, Cultural, And Political Responses To The West; Author: Rejwan, Nissim; Hardback; Book

Author: Rejwan, Nissim
Hardback; Book; Notes, Index
342 pages
Published: February 1998
University Presses of Florida
ISBN: 0813015596

This book of extraordinary breadth condenses and presents the works of the major Arab thinkers of the modern period. It surveys the ways in which Muslim Arabs have responded to challenges from the West since the first Muslim reformists made their appearance in Egypt in the 1870s up to the most recent pleas for Islam's regeneration at the end of the 20th century.The book begins with reactions to the West in the works of such religious leaders as Afghani, 'Abduh, A1-Kawakibi, Rashid Rida, Qasim Amin, and Taha Husain; the rise of Islamic militancy; and the spread of the nationalist movement. It describes events surrounding the Six-Day War of 1967 and the October War of 1973 and the rise of a new and more violent type of religious fundamentalism. And it summarizes issues that contThis volume aims to present the work of the major Arab thinkers, surveying the ways in which Muslim Arabs have responded to challenges from the West since the first Muslim reformists made their appearance in Egypt in the 1870s to the pleas for Islam's regeneration at the end of the 20th century.