Contemporary Arab Thought

Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' is the holder of the Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities Chair of Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta. His many books include The Contemporary Arab Reader on Political Islam (Pluto, 2010), Myth and Reality in the Contemporary Islamist Movement (Pluto, 2005), and The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought (Blackwells, 2006).

Foreword by Ghada Talhami


PART ONE


THEMATIC SECTION


Introduction


1. The Scope and Limitation of Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History


2. Contemporary Arab Intellectual Trends


3. Secularism and its Hazards: The Recent Debate in the Arab World


4. Contemporary Arab Views of Secularism


5. Formation of Contemporary Identities: Nationalism and Islamism


in Contemporary Arab Thought


6. Traditional Values, Social Change and the Contemporary Arab Personality


7. Globalisation: A Contemporary Islamic Response?


8. Contemporary Arab View of Globalisation


PART TWO


THINKERS’ SECTION


1. Rashid Ghannoushi [of Tunisia] and the Questions of Shari’ah and Civil Society


2. Muslim Self-Criticism in Contemporary Arab Thought:


The Case of Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali (1916-1996)


3. Islam and Muslims in Crisis


4. Toward a Critical Arab Reason: The Contributions of Muhammad ‘Abid al-Jabiri


5. Critical Arab Reason


6. Costantine Zurayk and the Search for Arab Nationalism


7. Mahdi ‘Amil and the Unfinished Project of Arab Marxism


8. Abdallah Laroui: From Objective Marxism to Liberal Etatism


Conclusions


Bibliography


Index