Lost in the sacred: why the Muslim world stood still/ Dan Diner.
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TextPublication details: Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2009Description: viii, 213 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780691129112; 0691129118Subject(s): Islamic countries | CivilizationDDC classification: 909.0967 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 909.0967 DIN/L (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P04363 |
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-209) and index.
1. KNOWLEDGE AND DEVELOPMENT: the state of the Arab world. "Orientalism" and its adversaries --
Rifa'ah at-Tahtawi and the "Arab Human Development Report" --
Language and social lifeworlds --
Knowledge and technology --
Freedom and prosperity --
Power and benefit --
Military and politics --
Mehmed Ali and Gamal Abdel Nasser --
Ground rent and productivity --
Oil wealth and stasis --
2. GEOPOLITICS AND RELIGIOUS ZEAL: Radicalizaiton in the Muslim East. Between Palestine and Kashmir --
Cold War and decolonization --
England and Russia --
Gladstone and Disraeli --
Caliphate and Pan-Islam --
Kemal Pasha and Enver Pasha --
Hindus and Muslims --
Colonialism and alienation --
Arabism and Islamism --
Mawdudi and Sayyid Qutb --
Political theology and civil war --
3. TEXT AND SPEECH: the rejection of the printing press. One God, one book --
Mechanical reproduction and profanation --
Consonants and vowels --
Arabic and Hebrew --
Baruch Spinoza and Walter Benjamin --
Romanization and secularization --
Recitation and reading --
Literacy and diglossia --
Fusha and Ammiya --
4. RISE AND DECLINE: Ottoman perplexities in the early modern period. --
Europe and Asia --
Ottomans and the New World --
Gold and silver --
Piri Reis and Selim I --
Mamluks and Venetians --
The price revolution and mercantilism --
Janissaries and bureaucrats --
Merchants and craftsmen --
Inflation and rebellion --
Stasis or crisis --
Mustafa Ali and Katip Celebi --
5. POLITICAL POWER AND ECONOMIC BENEFIT: Muslim social environment in the classical age. Desert and Steppe --
Tribute and tax --
Central power and urban culture --
Umayyads and Abbasids --
Mercenaries and traders --
Polis and Medina --
Public and private --
Benefices and capital --
Labor and property --
Time and liturgy --
Ethics and morals --
Sacred and profane --
6. HISTORICAL THOUGHT AND DIVINE LAW: Converting sacred into profane time. Acceleration or deceleration --
Law and history --
Cyclical vs linear time --
Ibn Khaldun and Giambattista Vico --
Past utopias and future worlds --
Islam and Judaism --
Leo Strauss and Moses Maimonides --
Dual law and dual time --
Muhammad Asad and Moses Mendelssohn --
Law of the land and secularization.
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