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Lost in the sacred : why the Muslim world stood still / Dan Diner ; translated by Steven Rendall.
Van Pelt Library DS35.62 .D5613 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diner, Dan, 1946-
- Standardized Title:
- Versiegelte Zeit. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic countries--Civilization.
- Islamic countries.
- Civilization.
- Islamic countries--History.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 213 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- 1 Knowledge and Development: The State of the Arab World 11
- "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: Radicalization in the Muslim East 38
- 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 69
- 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 96
- 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 126
- 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 153
- Acceleration or Deceleration
- Law and History
- Cyclical versus Linear Time
- Ibn Khaldun and Giambattista Vico
- Past Utopias and Future Worlds
- Islan and Judaism
- Leo Strauss and Moses Maimonides
- Dual Law and Dual Time
- Muhammad Asad and Moses Mendelssohn
- Law of the Land and Secularization.
- Notes:
- Translated from the German.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-209) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691129112
- 0691129118
- OCLC:
- 231587418
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