What is the relationship between thought and practice in the domains of language, literature and politics? Is thought the only standard by which to measure inte

This book is a most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East.

Cutting-edge scholarship on post-war Arab intellectual history that challenges conventional thinking about authoritarianism, religion and revolution in the mode

Arabic thought in the liberal cage / Hussein Omar -- Corrupting politics / Nadia Bou Ali -- Illiberal Islam / Faisal Devji -- Postcolonial prophets: Islam in th

Explores the many facets of Arab political thought from the nineteenth century to the present day.