
Fundamentalism and Secularization
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This gives voice to an argument from within the Islamic world that is very different to that given platform in the mainstream, showing that fundamentalism does not arise normally and naturally from Islam but is a complex phenomenon linked to modernization and the development of capitalism in dependent countries, that is, tied to imperialism.
Wahba's central argument concerns the organic relationship between fundamentalism and parasitic capitalism. Wahba is equally critical of religious fundamentalism and global capitalism, which for him are obstructions to secularization and democracy. While the three Abrahamic religions are examined when it comes to fundamentalism, Wahba deconstructs Islamic fundamentalism in particular and in the process reconstructs an Islamic humanism.
Including a new preface by the author and translator, Fundamentalism and Secularism provides invaluable insights into how Middle Eastern philosophies open up new lines of thought in thinking through contemporary crises.
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Robert K. Beshara is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Humanities, Northern New Mexico College, USA. He is author of Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies (2019) and the editor of A Critical Introduction to Psychology (2019). He is the founder of the Critical Psychology website: www.criticalpsychology.org, and is the director of the Critical Psychology certificate programme at the Center for Global Advanced Studies.
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Acknowledgements
Introductory Dialogue, Mourad Wahba (Ain Shams University, Egypt) and Robert K. Beshara (Northern New Mexico College, USA)
Translator's Preface, Robert K. Beshara (Northern New Mexico College, USA)
Part I: Fundamentalism and Secularization
What is Fundamentalism?
What is Secularization?
Fundamentalism and Secularization in the Middle East
Postmodernism and Fundamentalism
Part II: Essays
Philosophy in North Africa
The Concept of the Good in Islamic Philosophy
Bibliography
Index
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