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Deux psychanalystes, Gérad Haddad, juif tunisien vivant en France, et Hechmi Dhaoui, musulman vivant en Tunisie, s'interrogent sur la situation du monde arabo-musulman dans ses rapports avec l'Occident. C'est l'occasion pour eux de pourfendre quelques lieux communs et de mettre au jour certains paradoxes douloureux. Plutôt qu'à un choc des civilisations, ne sommes-nous pas confrontés à une guerre civile au sein d'une même civilisation méditerranéenne nourrie à la fois par le message monothéiste et la philosophie grecque transmise à l'Occident par les Arabes ? Pour quelles raisons la brillante civilisation arabo-musulmane est-elle entrée dans un déclin à ce jour sans remède ? Les auteurs soulignent l'importance, au IXe siècle, de la " fermeture des portes de l'Ijithad ", c'est-à-dire de la " pensée critique " qui avait régné durant les premiers temps de l'Islam. L' " imitation " des fondateurs remplaça alors la réflexion. Au lieu de s'attaquer à la racine du problème, le monde arabo-musulman contemporain paraît s'embourber dans deux mauvaises solutions pour sortir de ses impasses : le nationalisme et l'intégrisme, avec pour conséquence la voie sans issue du terrorisme. Loin de revenir aux sources vives de leur religion, des musulmans semblent bien avoir entrepris une régression vers des comportements et des valeurs préislamiques...
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Muslims --- Islam --- East and West
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East and west --- China --- Civilization.
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This book reevaluates "international knowledge" in light of recent scholarship in the fields of hermeneutics, ethnography, and historiography regarding the non-West, the past, and the present of international society. Counteingr the disciplinary skepticism about political possibilities outside of the strictures of modern Western forms, it proposes formulations of power, interest, ethics, and subjectivity by a group of African intellectuals as plausible alternatives to official French and American postwar proposals for world order.
East and West. --- Eurocentrism. --- International relations
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The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. 'Journeys to the Other Shore' challenges these stereotypes by charting the common ways in which Muslim and Western travelers negotiate the dislocation of travel to worlds that are unfamiliar and strange. In Roxanne Euben's groundbreaking excursion across cultures, geography, history, genre, and genders, travel signifies not only a physical movement across lands and cultures, but also an imaginative journey in which wonder about those who live differently makes it possible to see the world differently. In the book we meet not only Herodotus but also Ibn Battuta, the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler. Tocqueville's journeys are set against a five-year sojourn in nineteenth-century Paris by the Egyptian writer and translator Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi, and Montesquieu's novel 'Persian Letters' meets with the memoir of an East African princess, Sayyida Salme. This extraordinary book shows that curiosity about the unknown, the quest to understand foreign cultures, critical distance from one's own world, and the desire to remake the foreign into the familiar are not the monopoly of any single civilization or epoch. Euben demonstrates that the fluidity of identities, cultures, and borders associated with our postcolonial, globalized world has a long history--one shaped not only by Western power but also by an Islamic ethos of travel in search of knowledge.
East and West. --- Travel, Medieval. --- Travelers --- Voyages and travels.
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Arabic fiction --- Immigrants --- East and West --- Italy --- Italy
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