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The clash of modernities : the Islamist challenge to Arab, Jewish, and Turkish nationalism
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The clash of modernities : the Islamist challenge to Arab, Jewish, and Turkish nationalism

Author: Khaldoun Samman
Publisher: Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, ©2011.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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To understand the Middle East we must also understand how the West produced a temporal narrative of world history in which westemers placed themselves on top and all others below them. This book  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Khaldoun Samman
ISBN: 9781594516979 1594516979 9781594516986 1594516987
OCLC Number: 610019083
Description: x, 261 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction : a personal example of a temporal script --
The colonizer's time machine and the discourse of "becoming modern" --
The anti-Semitic gaze and the occidentalization of the Jew in Zionist and Israeli nationalism --
The Kemalist acquiescence to the colonizer's time machine --
Arab time-travelers and cultural schizophrenia --
The Islamist time machine and the rebellion against the colonizer's civilizational insult --
Women as the sign of the times --
Conclusion : thinking outside the time-space box of colonial modernity.
Responsibility: Khaldoun Samman.
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