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Cultural transitions in the Middle East / edited by Şerif Mardin.

Contributor(s): Mardin, Şerif | American University (Washington, D.C.). School of International Service
Material type: TextTextSeries: Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East: v. 48.Publisher: Leiden, the Netherlands ; New York : Brill, 1994Description: xiii, 278 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004098739 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Middle East -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | Middle East -- Intellectual life -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 956 LOC classification: DS57 | .C85 1994Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [260]-269) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Serif Mardin -- Constitutions and the struggle for political order : a study in the modernization of political tradition / Said Amir Arjomand -- New England puritanism and liberal education in the Middle East : the American University of Beirut as a cultural transplant / Samir Khalaf -- A critique of Hassan Hanafi concerning his reflections on the scarcity of freedom in the Arab-Muslim world / Richard K. Khuri -- A literature of Islamic revival? : the autobiography of Shaykh Kishk / Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- Sayyid Qutb : the poverty of philosophy and the vindication of Islamic tradition / Shahrough Akhavi -- The Muslim intellectual and his audience : a new configuration of writer and reader among believers in the Republic of Turkey / Michael E. Meeker -- Culture chance and the intellectual : a study of the effect of secularization in modern Turkey / Serif Mardin -- Islam and international relations in Turkey / Sabri Sayari -- Popular culture, state ideology, and national identity in Turkey : the Arabesk polemic / Irene Markoff -- The encounter of post-revolutionary thought in Iran with Hegel, Heidegger and Popper / Mehrzad Boroujerdi.

Papers from a conference convened at the School of International Service, the American University, in December 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [260]-269) and index.

Introduction / Serif Mardin -- Constitutions and the struggle for political order : a study in the modernization of political tradition / Said Amir Arjomand -- New England puritanism and liberal education in the Middle East : the American University of Beirut as a cultural transplant / Samir Khalaf -- A critique of Hassan Hanafi concerning his reflections on the scarcity of freedom in the Arab-Muslim world / Richard K. Khuri -- A literature of Islamic revival? : the autobiography of Shaykh Kishk / Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- Sayyid Qutb : the poverty of philosophy and the vindication of Islamic tradition / Shahrough Akhavi -- The Muslim intellectual and his audience : a new configuration of writer and reader among believers in the Republic of Turkey / Michael E. Meeker -- Culture chance and the intellectual : a study of the effect of secularization in modern Turkey / Serif Mardin -- Islam and international relations in Turkey / Sabri Sayari -- Popular culture, state ideology, and national identity in Turkey : the Arabesk polemic / Irene Markoff -- The encounter of post-revolutionary thought in Iran with Hegel, Heidegger and Popper / Mehrzad Boroujerdi.

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