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Fundamentalism and Secularization

Mourad Wahba

Fundamentalism and Secularization
Fundamentalism and Secularization

Fundamentalism and Secularization

Mourad Wahba

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Beshara has rendered a great service to those interested in contemporary Arabic philosophy through his readable and accurate translation of Fundamentalism and Secularization.

Beshara has rendered a great service to those interested in contemporary Arabic philosophy through his readable and accurate translation of Fundamentalism and Secularization.

Appreciation and praise to Robert K. Beshara for making Mourad Wahba’s Fundamentalism and Secularization available to Anglophone readers through this wonderful translation, with an interview and additional essays. A provocative—and in this reader’s view insightful—thesis of Wahba’s text is that postmodernism is an exemplar of fundamentalisms and their aspirations of a foreclosed and often feared future. This classic work is a testament to the value of epistemic humility, the vitality of creativity, and the courage of taking responsibility for a future to create instead of to block. Its relevance to the contemporary global social and political situation, in which fundamentalisms ranging from the parasitic capitalist forces of neoliberalism and neoconservatism alongside bizarre meetings of neofascism and left pessimism and political nihilism imperil life on our planet, is evident. This voice from the Global South speaks to the world, to humanity, to thinking thought with the love for the spirit of freedom to reach the hearts and minds for generations to come on which, simply put, dignity and life depend.

This translation of Mourad Wahba’s Fundamentalism and Secularization could not have come at a more opportune time. It is a welcome and most needed intervention, corrective even, by an extremely knowledgeable thinker in contemporary understandings of the history of philosophy, generally, and of the continuing relevance of what we call the Enlightenment Project in our day. The latter, for him, is not a Euro-American possession but a human inheritance to the construction of which Europeans, Africans, Arabs, Christians, Jews, Muslims, and more contributed. One of its abiding products—secularization—Wahba argues is the antidote to the recrudescence of fundamentalisms in our day. We all owe Robert K. Beshara a debt of gratitude for translating it and Professor Wahba an even greater one for his courage and erudition in writing it.

The post-9/11 flurry in publishing literary translations from Arabic into English proceeded along predictable lines—novels about veils, sex and bombs. Aiming to explode stereotypes about the ‘Muslim world’, they often, instead, confirmed them. Beshara’s impressive translation of an important philosophical treatise is pathbreaking: finally we hear Arabophone intellectuals doing sophisticated theoretical speculation not just as ‘voices’ describing tokenized experience.

Mourad Wahba is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Ain Shams University, Egypt. He is the author of 22 books and Head and Founder of the Afro-Asian Philosophical Association as well as the Averroes International Association and Enlightenment. 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.

Specifications

  • Publisher
    Bloomsbury Academic
  • Translator
    Robert K. Beshara
  • Pub date
    Jan 2022
  • Pages
    176
  • Theme
    Islamic and Arab philosophy
  • Dimensions
    216 x 138 mm
  • Weight
    354 gram
  • EAN
    9781350228689
  • Hardback / bound
    Hardback / bound
  • Language
    English

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