What went wrong? the clash between Islam and modernity in the Middle East
For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or t...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Perennial
2003
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| Edition: | First Perennial edition |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991004837389706719 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface to the hardcover edition
- Introduction
- Chap. 1. The lessons of the battlefield
- Chap. 2. The quest for wealth and power
- Chap. 3. Social and cultural barriers
- Chap. 4. Modernization and social equality
- Chap. 5. Secularism and the civil society
- Chap. 6. Time, space, and modernity
- Chap. 7. Aspects of cultural change
- Conclusion
- Author's note
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index
