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Cover -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Contents -- A Note on Terminology -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Over a Millennium before Islam -- Chapter 2 -- The Myth of Peaceful Coexistence -- Chapter 3 -- The European Colonnial Revolution -- Chapter 4 -- The Legacy of the Nazi Era -- Chapter 5 -- A Virulent Nationalism -- Chapter 6 -- What Came First: Anti-Semitism or Anti-Zionism? -- Chapter 7 -- Jewish Refugee: Forgotten No More? -- Chapter 8 -- 'My House is Your House' -- Chapter 9 -- Mizrahi Wars of Politics and Culture -- Chapter 10 -- Myths, Lies and Omissions -- Chapter 11 -- The Quest for Justice for Indigenous Peoples -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Arab Renewal and Religious Reform: -- An Essay -- Abstract -- Preliminary Remarks -- The Roots of Civilizational Regression -- The Fallacy of the 'Closing of the Muslim Mind' -- The Political Roots of Civilizational Regression -- Size -- Utilitarianism -- Mercantilism -- Subjectivity -- On Civilizational Renewal -- The Scope of Civilizational Renewal -- Challenges -- Rereading the Cultural Heritage -- On Modernity -- Independent State and Liberation -- The Path to Civilization Renewal -- The Culture of Defeat -- The 'Other' and the Culture of Exclusion -- The Religious Discourse and Civilizational Renewal -- General Remarks -- Religious Thought and Religious Discourse -- Reform in Religious Thought -- Deconstructing the Religious Discourse -- Recapitulative Remarks -- References -- Biographical Sketch -- Chapter 2 -- Voices and Experiences of Libyans in the Post-Arab Spring Period -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Arab Spring in Libya -- Libya's Leadership and New Trends in Public Policy in the Post-Arab Spring Period -- Arab Experiences in the Post-Arab Spring Period -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Democracy and Pluralism in the Discursive Traditions of the Tunisian Islamic Movement -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Discursive Traditions -- The Specificity of Tunisian Islam: The Discourse About Pluralism, Moderation, Democracy -- Conclusion: Islamic Modernity -- References -- Index -- Blank Page

1 -- When History Changed Direction 2 -- Growing Apart 3 -- The West Takes Control 4 -- Sharing an Indigestible Cake 5 -- Secularism and Islamism in Egypt 6 -- The West Seems to Retreat 7 -- The Six-Day War and Its Consequences 8 -- Iraq, Israel, Militancy and Terrorism 9 -- The Age of Autocrats and the Rise of Islamism Conclusion -- Something Snaps: The Arabs Spring and Beyond Notes Bibliography Further Reading

Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Culture, Time and Publics in a Changing Arab Context -- Chapter 1. Dis-formations of Palestine -- Chapter 2. 'Our Children Are a Threat': Publics and the Policing of Cultural Temporality in Egypt -- Chapter 3. Cultural Time and Everyday Life in the Middle Atlas Mountain Village of Ait Nuh -- Chapter 4. Consuming the Past in Contemporary Beirut: The Case of Café Rawda during RAmadan -- Chapter 5. Neo-Tajdeed? Rap in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia -- Chapter 6. Reflections on Time in Arabic Poetry -- Chapter 7. Keywords in Arab Political Memory: Mahdi Amil's Vocabulary Revisited in 2017 -- Chapter 8. Rethinking Arab Philosophical Experience in the Time of Revolution -- Index -- Imprint.

Introduction: Voicing the past -- The emergence of a new field -- The great cultural war : the social and connected critics -- Jabiri as a thinker of (internal) decolonization -- Restating turath in the postcolonial age -- The making of a social critic : Jūrj Tarabishi -- A crack in the edifice of the social critic : from Thawrah to Nahḍa -- conclusion

This wide-ranging examination of Arab society and culture offers a unique opportunity to know the Arab world from an Arab point of view. Halim Barakat, an expatriate Syrian who is both scholar and novelist, emphasizes the dynamic changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-nineteenth century.The Arab world is not one shaped by Islam, nor one simply explained by reference to the sectarian conflicts of a "mosaic" society. Instead, Barakat reveals a society that is highly complex, with many and various contending polarities. It is a society in a state of becoming and change, one whose social contradictions are at the root of the struggle to transcend dehumanizing conditions. Arguing from a perspective that is both radical and critical, Barakat is committed to the improvement of human conditions in the Arab world