Arab Thought In The Renaissance 1798-1939

Arab Thought and the West constitutes the most exhaustive study of the modernist current of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East. In reaction to the growing influence of Europe from the nineteenth century, Arab-Muslim thinkers became concerned with the causes of the European rise as well as the backwardness of Islamic societies. Several fundamental questions arise: is democracy compatible with Islam? What is the nature of Islam? Is there an Islamic identity? Arabic? ...