Sadik J. al-azm. On Fundamentalisms. With a Foreword by Stefan Wild

Sadik J. al-azm On Fundamentalisms With a Foreword by Stefan Wild

First published 2014 by Gerlach Press, Berlin www.gerlach-press.de Cover Design: www.brandnewdesign.de, Hamburg Typeset by spree-media.net, Berlin Printed and bound in Germany by Freiburger Graphische Betriebe www.fgb.de Gerlach Press 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted or reproduced, or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any other information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from British National Library. Bibliographic data available from Deutsche Nationalbibliothek http://d-nb.info/1032969059 ISBN:978-3-940924-20-9 (3 vols set) ISBN: 978-3-940924-22-3 (this hardcover volume) ISBN: 978-3-940924-23-0 (ebook)

Contents Foreword 7 By Stefan Wild 1 Islam and the Science-Religion Debates in Modern Times 17 2 Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered: A Critical Outline of Problems, Ideas and Approaches 33 I Terminological Debates 33 II A Defense 39 III Some Historical Comparisons 48 IV Errors, Heresies, and Innovations 52 V Popular Sovereignty 72 VI Modernists and Latitudinarians 79 VII Religion and Science 88 VIII Protestants and Islamists 98 IX Inerrantists, Dominionists, and Theonomists 133 3 The Struggle Over the Meaning of Islam 157 4 Appendix: What is Islamism? A Short and Compact Answer 173 5 Appendix: The Takfir Syllogism 177 Notes 179 Acknowledgements 188 Chronological Table 189

Sadik J. al-azm Islam Submission and Disobedience

First published 2014 by Gerlach Press, Berlin www.gerlach-press.de Cover Design: www.brandnewdesign.de, Hamburg Typeset by spree-media.net, Berlin Printed and bound in Germany by Freiburger Graphische Betriebe www.fgb.de Gerlach Press 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted or reproduced, or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any other information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from British National Library. Bibliographic data available from Deutsche Nationalbibliothek http://d-nb.info/1032969059 ISBN:978-3-940924-20-9 (3 vols set) ISBN: 978-3-940924-24-7 (this hardcover volume) ISBN: 978-3-940924-25-4 (ebook)

Contents 1 The Importance of Being Earnest about Salman Rushdie 7 2 Satanic Verses Post Festum The Global, the Local, and the Literary 59 3 Is The Fatwa a Fatwa? 121 4 Universalizing from Particulars 125 5 The Tragedy of Satan (Iblis) 131 Notes 179 Acknowledgements 187 Chronological Table of Contents 189

Sadik J. al-azm Is Islam Secularizable? Challenging Political and Religious Taboos

First published 2014 by Gerlach Press, Berlin www.gerlach-press.de Cover Design: www.brandnewdesign.de, Hamburg Typeset by spree-media.net, Berlin Printed and bound in Germany by Freiburger Graphische Betriebe www.fgb.de Gerlach Press 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted or reproduced, or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any other information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from British National Library. Bibliographic data available from Deutsche Nationalbibliothek http://d-nb.info/1032969059 ISBN:978-3-940924-20-9 (3 vols set) ISBN: 978-3-940924-26-1 (this hardcover volume) ISBN: 978-3-940924-27-8 (ebook)

Contents 1 Islam and Secular Humanism 7 2 Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse 27 3 Orientalism and Conspiracy 57 4 Time Out of Joint 87 5 Palestinian Zionism 101 6 The Peace Process and the Gulf Crisis 111 7 The View from Damascus. Syria and the Peace Process 123 8 Replies to The View from Damascus 153 9 Answer to Replies The View from Damascus 159 10 Islam, Terrorism, and the West Today 165 11 Ground Zero Revisited 187 12 The Arab Spring: Why Exactly at this Time? 191 13 Civil Society and the Arab Spring 201 14 Trends in Arab Thought 217 Notes 235 Acknowledgements 242 Chronological Table of Contents 243