The Contemporary Arab Contribution to World Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Contemporary Arab Contribution to World Culture write by Magdi Youssef. This book was released on 2018-07-27. The Contemporary Arab Contribution to World Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book comprises a selection of papers delivered at a research meeting of the International Association of Intercultural Studies (IAIS) which took place in Paris in March, 2009. As suggested by its title, it addresses prejudices prevailing not only in Western societies, but also in marginalized ones, especially among their Western-oriented intelligentsia. It is often claimed that there exists no ‘serious’ contribution to world culture that is not based on the Western models that prevail worldwide, especially in the aftermath of globalization. This book challenges the projected image of a dominant West serving as a necessary and indispensable model for a dependent, receptive ‘rest of the world.’ It can be read as a necessary decolonization of today’s human knowledge in all disciplines by taking as an example recent Arab contributions in many areas of human knowledge, from the natural sciences to the political economy or architecture. Other marginalized socio-cultures worldwide, like those of Africa, India, Thailand, Persia, and Ireland, should follow suit in presenting an alternative to the extant globalization of Western norms, by offering a truly equal open exchange of human inventions on a world scale.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture write by Dwight F. Reynolds. This book was released on 2015-04-02. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible and wide-ranging survey of modern Arab culture covering political, intellectual and social aspects.
An Introduction to Modern Arab Culture (First Edition)
An Introduction to Modern Arab Culture (First Edition) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Introduction to Modern Arab Culture (First Edition) write by Bassam K. Frangieh. This book was released on 2018-08-09. An Introduction to Modern Arab Culture (First Edition) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An Introduction to Modern Arab Culture exposes readers to fundamental characteristics of the Arab people, their culture, and their society. Over the course of 13 chapters, readers learn about the emergence and influence of Islam in Arab culture, religious and ethnic minorities within the Arab world, the critical role of family in Arab life, and the origin and evolution of the Arabic language. Dedicated chapters provide an introduction to the religion of Islam and the Qur'an, and an exploration of Islamic communities throughout the ages. Additional chapters explore Arab poetry, literature, music, values, and thought, revealing the impact of major artworks and their creators on Arab life and tradition. The final chapters address the Arab Spring, the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, and contemporary challenges and opportunities. An Introduction to Modern Arab Culture introduces readers to aspects of Arab culture while demonstrating how these facets intertwine to create a unique tapestry of identity, experience, and history. The book is well suited to courses in Middle East culture and history, politics, thought, literature, religion, and language, and courses in sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies.
Contemporary Arab Thought
Contemporary Arab Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Arab Thought write by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab. This book was released on 2010. Contemporary Arab Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the second half of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between a search for totalizing doctrines--nationalist, Marxist, and religious--and radical critique. Arab thinkers were reacting to the disenchanting experience of postindependence Arab states, as well as to authoritarianism, intolerance, and failed development. They were also responding to successive defeats by Israel, humiliation, and injustice. The first book to take stock of these critical responses, this volume illuminates the relationship between cultural and political critique in the work of major Arab thinkers, and it connects Arab debates on cultural malaise, identity, and authenticity to the postcolonial issues of Latin America and Africa, revealing the shared struggles of different regions and various Arab concerns.
The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures
The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures write by Muhsin J. al-Musawi. This book was released on 2021-08-26. The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The stories in the Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights, are familiar to many of us: from the tales of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and his forty thieves, to the framing story of Scheherazade telling these stories to her homicidal husband, Shahrayar. This book offers a rich and wide-ranging analysis of the power of this collection of tales that penetrates so many cultures and appeals to such a variety of predilections and tastes. It also explores areas that were left untouched, like the decolonization of the Arabian Nights, and its archaeologies. Unique in its excavation into inroads of perception and reception, Muhsin J. al-Musawi's book unearths means of connection with common publics and learned societies. Al-Musawi shows, as never before, how the Arabian Nights has been translated, appropriated, and authenticated or abused over time, and how its reach is so expansive as to draw the attention of poets, painters, illustrators, translators, editors, musicians, political scientists like Leo Strauss, and novelists like Michel Butor, James Joyce and Marcel Proust amongst others. Making use of documentaries, films, paintings, novels and novellas, poetry, digital forums and political jargon, this book offers nuanced understanding of the perennial charm and power of this collection.
