The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times - Christopher de Bellaigue
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With majestic prose, Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Flying in the face of everything we thought we knew, The Islamic Enlightenment becomes an astonishing and revelatory history that offers a game-changing assessment of the Middle East since the Napoleonic Wars.
Beginning his account in 1798, de Bellaigue demonstrates how Middle Eastern heartlands have long welcomed modern ideals and practices, including the adoption of modern medicine, the emergence of women from seclusion, and the development of democracy. With trenchant political and historical insight, de Bellaigue further shows how the violence of an infinitesimally small minority is in fact the tragic blowback from these modernizing processes.
Structuring his groundbreaking history around Istanbul, Cairo, and Tehran, the three main loci of Islamic culture, de Bellaigue directly challenges ossified perceptions of a supposedly benighted Muslim world through the forgotten, and inspiring, stories of philosophers, anti-clerics, journalists, and feminists who opened up their societies to political and intellectual emancipation. His sweeping and vivid account includes remarkable men and women from across the Muslim world, including Ibrahim Sinasi, who brought newspapers to Istanbul; Mirza Saleh Shirzi, whose Persian memoirs describe how the Turkish harems were finally shuttered; and Qurrat al-Ayn, an Iranian noble woman, who defied her husband to become a charismatic prophet.
What makes The Islamic Enlightenment particularly germane is that non-Muslim pundits in the post-9/11 era have repeatedly called for Islam to subject itself to the transformations that the West has already achieved since the Enlightenment—the absurd implication being that if Muslims do not stop reading or following the tenets of the Qur’an and other holy books, they will never emerge from a benighted state of backwardness. The Islamic Enlightenment, with its revolutionary argument, completely refutes this view and, in the process, reveals the folly of Westerners demanding modernity from those whose lives are already drenched in it.
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| The Islamic Enlightenment 07 - Chapter5 Nation page201.mp3 97.18 MBs | |
| The Islamic Enlightenment 02 - Introduction page000.mp3 30.01 MBs | |
| The Islamic Enlightenment 03 - Chapter1 Cairo page001.mp3 60.78 MBs | |
| The Islamic Enlightenment 04 - Chapter2 Istanbul page053.mp3 62.17 MBs | |
| The Islamic Enlightenment 05 - Chapter3 Tehran page107.mp3 52.52 MBs | |
| The Islamic Enlightenment 06 - Chapter4 Vortex page155.mp3 50.32 MBs | |
| The Islamic Enlightenment 01 - Opening Credits.mp3 245.93 KBs | |
| The Islamic Enlightenment 08 - Chapter6 Counter-Enlightenment page291.mp3 60.4 MBs | |
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 5/5
August 29th, 2021
Out, out, brief candle!
Empire’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.
August 29th, 2021
Dammit, if they want an Enlightenment, lettem have 1! Titania McGrath observed that Muhammad was the world’s 1st intersectional feminist. People need to no this stuff.
August 29th, 2021
@caesar963
There was big Enlightenment in the Abbasid caliphate it is so sad that fanaticism eventually won.
August 29th, 2021
The way the word ” enlightenment ” is used to describe any positive aspect in the Islamic world by western standards - regardless of the actual opinion of the people, God forbid that the west should ever think of anybody’s opinion except its own - is self-centred and irritating. Neither the word nor its concept is used in the Islamic word in reference to its positive aspect.
It is has been always associated with Europe and that’s how it is used for the most part. But who cares, the world must be always held in comparison with the West’s values and standards. The same West that happens to believe in no absolute truth. Except its own of course.
August 29th, 2021
Localised absolute truths are the only way to go. At least I find that to be true locally.
August 30th, 2021
tell ‘em Caesar @caesar!
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