Islam, orientalism and intellectual history : modernity and the politics of exclusion since Ibn Khaldūn /

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Main Author: Salama, Mohammad R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2011
Series:Library of Middle East history ;
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : thinking about Islam and the West ---- 1. Fact or fiction? How the writing of history became a discourse of conquest --- 2. Postcolonial battles over Ibn Khaldūn : intellectual history and the politics of exclusion --- 3. How did Islam make it into Hegel's philosophy of world history? --- 4. The emergence of Islam as a historical category in British colonial thought --- 5. Disciplining Islam : colonial Egypt, a case study ---- Epilogue : historicizing the global, politicizing Islam, giving violence a new name.