Occidentalism, Conspiracy and Taboo: Collected Essays on Islam and Politics Volume 4 ISBN: 9783959940474 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Gerlach Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: History ; Middle East Studies ; Philosophy ; Sociology;
Sadik J. Al-Azm was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, Secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue.This fourth collection of his essays includes:- Syria in Revolt (2014)- Experience or "Regime of Truth"? About Translation, Arabic and the Postmodern (2014) - Orientalism of the Worst Kind (2015)- The Shari'a from a Secular Perspective (2015)- Crossing Borders: Orientalism, lslamism and Postmodernism (2016)- What's in a Name: Middle East or West Asia? (2016)