Occidentalism, Conspiracy and Taboo

Collected Essays on Islam and Politics

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Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2016) 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 and final volume of his works in English includes his essays on:
– Faith and Reason in Islam: Strategies in the Education of Muslim Communities
– Sharia from a Secular Perspective
– Crossing Borders: Orientalism, lslamism and Postmodernism
– The Concept of Civil Society in Relation to the ‘Arab Spring’
– Statement by 99 Syrian Intellectuals („Charta 99“)
– Goethe Medal 2015 Acceptance Speech