Description |
1 online resource (241 pages) |
Contents |
9783940924452; 9783940924452; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Translatorâ#x80;#x99;s Acknowledgements; Introduction to the English Edition; Introduction; 1 Scientific Culture and the Poverty of Religious Thought; 2 The Tragedy of Satan (Iblis); 3 Reply to a Criticism; 4 The Miracle of the Apparition of the Virginand the Eradication of the Traces of Aggression; 5 Deception in Contemporary Western Christian Thought; 6 Introduction to the Scientific-MaterialistConception of the Universe and its Development; Appendix 1 Documents from the Trial of the Author and PublisherDecember 1969-January 1970 |
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Appendix 2 Statement of the Mufti of the Republic [Lebanon]about the Book â#x80;#x9C;Critique of Religious Thoughtâ#x80;#x9D |
Summary |
Sadik al-Azm's Critique of Religious Thought set off one of the the great Arab intellectual uproars of the twentieth century, leading to the author's imprisonment and trial for mocking religion and inciting sectarian conflict. As in his earlier Self-Criticism after the Defeat, al-Azm takes on the taboos of the age and their sponsors: the religious elites. In this book he attempts to awaken the Arab mind from its dogmatic slumber, leading it out of the Middle Ages and into a modern world characterized by science and rationality. Critique of Religious Thought is one of the most controversial and |
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Print version record |
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Islam -- Arab countries -- 20th century
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Religious thought -- Arab countries -- 20th century
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RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
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Intellectual life
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Islam
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Religious thought
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Arab countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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Arab countries
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Stergios, George
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ISBN |
9783940924452 |
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3940924458 |
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