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LOST IN THE SACRED : Why the Muslim World Stood Still /

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Main Author: Diner, Dan, 1946- (Author)
Other Authors: Rendall, Steven (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009
©2009
Edition:English ed.
Subjects:
Islamic countries > Civilization
Islamic countries > History
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. KNOWLEDGE AND DEVELOPMENT: the state of the Arab world. "Orientalism" and its adversaries
  • Rifa'ah at-Tahtawi and the "Arab Human Development Report"
  • Language and social lifeworlds
  • Knowledge and technology
  • Freedom and prosperity
  • Power and benefit
  • Military and politics
  • Mehmed Ali and Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Ground rent and productivity
  • Oil wealth and stasis
  • 2. GEOPOLITICS AND RELIGIOUS ZEAL: Radicalizaiton in the Muslim East. Between Palestine and Kashmir
  • Cold War and decolonization
  • England and Russia
  • Gladstone and Disraeli
  • Caliphate and Pan-Islam
  • Kemal Pasha and Enver Pasha
  • Hindus and Muslims
  • Colonialism and alienation
  • Arabism and Islamism
  • Mawdudi and Sayyid Qutb
  • Political theology and civil war
  • 3. TEXT AND SPEECH: the rejection of the printing press. One God, one book
  • Mechanical reproduction and profanation
  • Consonants and vowels
  • Arabic and Hebrew
  • Baruch Spinoza and Walter Benjamin
  • Romanization and secularization
  • Recitation and reading
  • Literacy and diglossia
  • Fusha and Ammiya
  • 4. RISE AND DECLINE: Ottoman perplexities in the early modern period.
  • Europe and Asia
  • Ottomans and the New World
  • Gold and silver
  • Piri Reis and Selim I
  • Mamluks and Venetians
  • The price revolution and mercantilism
  • Janissaries and bureaucrats
  • Merchants and craftsmen
  • Inflation and rebellion
  • Stasis or crisis
  • Mustafa Ali and Katip Celebi
  • 5. POLITICAL POWER AND ECONOMIC BENEFIT: Muslim social environment in the classical age. Desert and Steppe
  • Tribute and tax
  • Central power and urban culture
  • Umayyads and Abbasids
  • Mercenaries and traders
  • Polis and Medina
  • Public and private
  • Benefices and capital
  • Labor and property
  • Time and liturgy
  • Ethics and morals
  • Sacred and profane
  • 6. HISTORICAL THOUGHT AND DIVINE LAW: Converting sacred into profane time. Acceleration or deceleration
  • Law and history
  • Cyclical vs linear time
  • Ibn Khaldun and Giambattista Vico
  • Past utopias and future worlds
  • Islam and Judaism
  • Leo Strauss and Moses Maimonides
  • Dual law and dual time
  • Muhammad Asad and Moses Mendelssohn
  • Law of the land and secularization.

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