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Al-Azmeh, Aziz was born on July 23, 1947 in Damascus, Syria. Son of Malak and Salma (Nabulsi) Al-Al-Azmeh.
(New interpretation of the historical thought of this grea...)
New interpretation of the historical thought of this great figure of Arab-Islamic letters and of historical thought overall. The author has eschewed the ahistorical interpretations to which Ibn Khaldū n has normally been subjected, both by authors who have sought unduly to modernise his thought, and by those who sought to freeze it in stereotypical models.
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( This is a study of the structure and composition of the...)
This is a study of the structure and composition of the official learning current in medieval Arabic culture. This comprises natural sciences both exoteric and esoteric (medicine, alchemy, astrology and others), traditional and religious sciences (such as theology, exegesis and grammar), philosophical sciences such as metaphysics and ethics, in addition to technical disciplines like political theory and medicine, and other fields of intellectual endeavour. The book identifies and develops a number of conceptual elements common to the various areas of official Arabic scientific discourse, and shows how these elements integrate these disparate sciences into an historical epistemic unity. The specific profile of each of these different sciences is described, in terms of its conceptual content, but especially with reference to its historical circumstances. These are seen to be embodied in a number of institutional supports, both intellectual and social: paradigms, schools of thought, institutions of learning, pedagogic techniques, and a body of professionals, all of which combine to form definite, albeit ever renewed, traditions of learning. Finally, an attempt is made to relate Arabic scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages to patterns of scientific and political authority. First published in 1986.
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This study outlines the main features of the theory and practice of political power in Muslim polities in the Middle Ages against the background of Near Eastern traditions of kingship, particularly Hellenistic, Persian, and Byzantine. The early Arab-Muslim polity is treated as an integral part of late Antiquity and the book explores the way in which older traditions were transposed into Islamic form and given specifically Islamic textual sanction.
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( This study outlines the main features of the theory and...)
This study outlines the main features of the theory and practice of political power in Muslim polities in the Middle Ages against the background of Near Eastern traditions of kingship, particularly Hellenistic, Persian, and Byzantine. The early Arab-Muslim polity is treated as an integral part of late Antiquity and the book explores the way in which older traditions were transposed into Islamic form and given specifically Islamic textual sanction.
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Islam has become the new spectre haunting Europe. All too often, even well-meaning liberals portray the modern resurgence of Islam as the new “Green Menace”—intolerant, medieval and barbaric—which has replaced Communism as the main threat to Western civilization and values. For Aziz Al-Azmeh, this Orientalist and racist view of Islam is nothing but the mirror-image of the myths propagated by Islamic fundamentalists and radicals. Both views share an erroneous and ahistorical conception of Islam as an unchanging and monolithic entity. Surveying both its social origins and its intellectual genealogy, Al-Azmeh rethinks the relationship between Islam and the West, uncovering a rich actual history of interaction. In this expanded new edition, the author examines the discourse surrounding Islamism and irrationalism after 9/11.
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Al-Azmeh, Aziz was born on July 23, 1947 in Damascus, Syria. Son of Malak and Salma (Nabulsi) Al-Al-Azmeh.
License-ès-lettres, Beirut Arab University, 1971. Master of Arts, Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, 1973. D. of Philosophy, University Oxford, 1978.
Lecturer University Kuwait, 1981-1983. Fellow department Arabic and Islamic studies University Exeter, England, 1983-1984, Sharjah professor Islamic studies England, 1985-1995. Zayed professor American University, Beirut, since 2000.
Visiting professor Yale, Columbia, Georgetown. Consultant British Broadcasting Corporation television, British Broadcasting Corporation Service, various universities, project for translation of Arabic literature United Nations Educational, ALESCO, UNITAR. Board directors Arts Worldwide, London.
( This study outlines the main features of the theory and...)
( This study outlines the main features of the theory and...)
(New interpretation of the historical thought of this grea...)
( This is a study of the structure and composition of the...)
(A reinterpretation of Ibn Khaldun, 14th-century Arabic ph...)
(Islam has become the new spectre haunting Europe. All too...)
Author: Ibn Khaldun in Modern Scholarship, 1981, Ibn Khaldun: An Essay in Reinterpretation, 1982, Historical Writing and Historical Culture (in Arabic), 1983, Arabic Thought and Islamic Societies, 1986, The Politics and History of Heritage (in Arabic), 1987, (in Arabic) Arabs and Barbarians, 1991, (in Arabic) Secularism, 1992, Islams and Modernities, 1993, Muslim Kingship, 1997. General editor Arabic and Islamic Studies. Member editorial board Review of Middle East Studies.
Chairman Arab Organization for Human Rights, London, 1986.
Married Nadia Al-Bagadi. 1 child, Omar.