Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion since Ibn Khaldun

by Salama, Mohammad R.

• ISBN13: 9781848850057
• ISBN10: 1848850050
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-15
• Publisher: Atlas Books

Summary

As the events and aftermath of 9/11 have shown, the relationship between Islam and the West is deeply troubled. Here Mohammad Salama calls for a new understanding of Islam as a historical condition that has existed in relationship to the West since the seventh century. He compares the Arab-Islamic and European traditions of historical thought since the early modern period, focusing on the watershed moments that informed their ideas of intellectual history and perceptions of one another. Islam, he argues, has played a major role in enabling and positioning Western historiography at key points, leaving palpable imprints on Islamic historiography in the process. Focusing on Ibn Khaldun, the complexities of orientalism and modernity, and recent European as well as Arab writings on these themes, this book is essential for all those interested in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, Western and Islamic philosophies of history, and modernity.

Author Biography

Mohammad Salama teaches Arabic at San Francisco State University and specializes in modern Arabic literature, Arab colonial and postcolonial thought, intellectual history and Arab cultural studies. He is the co-editor of German Colonialism: Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany (forthcoming 2011).

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. ix
Note on Translation and Transliteration	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Prologue: Thinking about Islam and the West	p. 1
Fact or Fiction? How the Writing of History Became a Discourse of Conquest	p. 39
Postcolonial Battles over Ibn Khaldun: Intellectual History and the Politics of Exclusion	p. 77
How did Islam make it into Hegel's Philosophy of World History?	p. 103
The Emergence of Islam as a Historical Category in British Colonial Thought	p. 123
Disciplining Islam: Colonial Egypt, A Case Study	p. 147
Epilogue: Historicizing the Global, Politicizing Islam, Giving Violence a New Name	p. 189
Notes	p. 215
Bibliography	p. 253
Index	p. 267
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