Sadik J Al-Azm
Biographic Data
| ID | 1088412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sadik J Al-Azm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sadik J |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Azm |
| SIGNATURE | AL-AZM S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Damascus University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Critique of Religious Thought
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…
On Fundamentalisms
Sadik Al-Azm is one of today's foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offers innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. On Fundamentalisms includes essays on: Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered, Islam and the Science-Religion Debates in Modern Times, The Struggle for the Meaning of Islam, What is Islamism?, and The Takfir Syllogism.
Critique of Religious Thought
"With a new introduction by the author, translated by George Stergios, 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 attem…
On Fundamentalisms
Is Islam Secularizable? Challenging Political and Religious Taboos
Arab Nationalism, Islamism and the Arab Uprisings
When considering the Arab uprisings, it is necessary to examine two ingrained and regressive tendencies in Arab political life: the absence of meaningful change and the persistence of the ancien regime. Comparisons of the uprisings in Syria and Egypt reveal connections to classical European revolutionary politics. The Syrian revolution is also reminiscent of Arab revolutionary politics of the 1950s and 1960s. Traditional Arab nationalism is absen…
The New Middle East
The New Middle East is one of the first comprehensive books to critically examine the Arab popular uprisings of 2011–12. While these uprisings prompted a number of cursory publications, this volume contains meticulous and thoughtful reflections on the causes, drivers and effects of these seminal events on the internal, regional and international politics of the Middle East and North Africa. Although specific conditions in individual countries tha…
The “Turkish Model”
This article deals with the impact on the political forces in the Arab World in general and in Syria in particular of the free, democratic and peaceful accession to power of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey. It further examines how Syrian political movements, especially political Islam, are trying to make sense out of these recent “revolutionary” political developments in Turkey and how they can be applied to the Syrian case
Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Islamism
The phenomena of orientalism, occidentalism, and Islamism are at play in a variety of contexts today. This intervention, while not a systematic essay on the subject, presents a kind of collage of analyses, observations, criticisms, and commentaries dealing with several conventional and unconventional themes substantively related to these issues. Occidentalism, it is argued here, has taken various forms over the past few decades: the “Orientalism …
Islam & Europe
Islam and the science–religion debates in modern times
Conflicts between science and religion, autonomous reason and divine revelation seem to continue in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim heritage and traditions. This holds true both in the secular West and in the Muslim East, in the scientifically and technologically most advanced societies as well as in the scientifically and technologically most backward cultures and countries. This article reviews some of the problems and issues involved in this persis…
Islam, Terrorism, and the West
Research Article| May 01 2005 Islam, Terrorism, and the West Sadik J. Al-Azm Sadik J. Al-Azm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 6–16. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-6 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sadik J. Al-Azm; Islam, Terrorism, and the West. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Mid…
Islam, Terrorism and the West Today
114 viewpoint © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Die Welt des Islams 44, 1 Also available online – www.brill.nl VIEWPOINT ISLAM, TERRORISM AND THE WEST TODAY BY SADIK J. AL-AZM Damascus I. Personal I was in Sendai, Japan as a visiting professor at Tohoku University when the September 11, 2001 airborne assaults on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon fortress in Washington DC occurred. I hap- pened to be watching television when t…
The Satanic Verses Post Festum The Global, The Local, The Literary
Research Article| August 01 2000 The Satanic Verses Post Festum The Global, The Local, The Literary Sadik J. Al-Azm Sadik J. Al-Azm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 44–78. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-20-1-2-44 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sadik J. Al-Azm; The Satanic Verses Post Festum The Globa…
Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered
Research Article| May 01 1994 Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered: A Critical Outline of Problems, Ideas and Approaches, Part II Sadik J. Al-Azm Sadik J. Al-Azm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 73–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-14-1-73 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sadik J. Al-Azm; Islamic Fundame…
Unbehagen in der Moderne. Aufklarung im Islam
Is the "Fatwa" a Fatwa
Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered
Research Article| August 01 1993 Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered: A Critical Outline of Problems, Ideas and Approaches, Part I1 Sadik J. Al-Azm Sadik J. Al-Azm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 93–121. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-13-1_and_2-93 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sadik J. Al-Azm;…
The Importance of Being Earnest About Salman Rushdie
Research Article| August 01 1991 The Importance of Being Earnest About Salman Rushdie Sadik J. Al-Azm Sadik J. Al-Azm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-11-1_and_2-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sadik J. Al-Azm; The Importance of Being Earnest About Salman Rus…
Palestinian Zionism
The Origin of Kant's Arguments in the Antinomies
Kant's Theory of Time
Book Reviews Get access Kant’s Theory of Time. BY Sadik J. Al-Azm. (New York : Philosophical Library. 1967. Pp. x + 84. Price $3.95) Graham Bird Graham Bird Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 75, April 1969, Page 164, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217688 Published: 01 April 1969
Kant's conception of the Noumenon
In treating of our subject three notions stand out prominently: the noumenon, the thing-in-itself and the transcendental object = X. In his commentary on The Transcendental Analytic , Robert P. Wolff has studied very carefully the question of the relationship between the notion of a transcendental object and that of the thing-in-itself. He noted and explained the passages of The Critique in which Kant means by the transcendental object simply the…
Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Islamism
The phenomena of orientalism, occidentalism, and Islamism are at play in a variety of contexts today. This intervention, while not a systematic essay on the subject, presents a kind of collage of analyses, observations, criticisms, and commentaries dealing with several conventional and unconventional themes substantively related to these issues. Occidentalism, it is argued here, has taken various forms over the past few decades: the “Orientalism …
The Importance of Being Earnest About Salman Rushdie
Research Article| August 01 1991 The Importance of Being Earnest About Salman Rushdie Sadik J. Al-Azm Sadik J. Al-Azm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-11-1_and_2-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sadik J. Al-Azm; The Importance of Being Earnest About Salman Rus…
The “Turkish Model”
This article deals with the impact on the political forces in the Arab World in general and in Syria in particular of the free, democratic and peaceful accession to power of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey. It further examines how Syrian political movements, especially political Islam, are trying to make sense out of these recent “revolutionary” political developments in Turkey and how they can be applied to the Syrian case
Islam and the science–religion debates in modern times
Conflicts between science and religion, autonomous reason and divine revelation seem to continue in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim heritage and traditions. This holds true both in the secular West and in the Muslim East, in the scientifically and technologically most advanced societies as well as in the scientifically and technologically most backward cultures and countries. This article reviews some of the problems and issues involved in this persis…
Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered
Research Article| August 01 1993 Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered: A Critical Outline of Problems, Ideas and Approaches, Part I1 Sadik J. Al-Azm Sadik J. Al-Azm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 93–121. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-13-1_and_2-93 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sadik J. Al-Azm;…
Kant's conception of the Noumenon
In treating of our subject three notions stand out prominently: the noumenon, the thing-in-itself and the transcendental object = X. In his commentary on The Transcendental Analytic , Robert P. Wolff has studied very carefully the question of the relationship between the notion of a transcendental object and that of the thing-in-itself. He noted and explained the passages of The Critique in which Kant means by the transcendental object simply the…
Kant's Theory of Time
Book Reviews Get access Kant’s Theory of Time. BY Sadik J. Al-Azm. (New York : Philosophical Library. 1967. Pp. x + 84. Price $3.95) Graham Bird Graham Bird Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 75, April 1969, Page 164, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217688 Published: 01 April 1969
The Origin of Kant's Arguments in the Antinomies
Palestinian Zionism
The Importance of Being Earnest About Salman Rushdie
Research Article| August 01 1991 The Importance of Being Earnest About Salman Rushdie Sadik J. Al-Azm Sadik J. Al-Azm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-11-1_and_2-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sadik J. Al-Azm; The Importance of Being Earnest About Salman Rus…
Is the "Fatwa" a Fatwa
Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered
Research Article| August 01 1993 Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered: A Critical Outline of Problems, Ideas and Approaches, Part I1 Sadik J. Al-Azm Sadik J. Al-Azm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 93–121. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-13-1_and_2-93 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sadik J. Al-Azm;…
Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered
Research Article| May 01 1994 Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered: A Critical Outline of Problems, Ideas and Approaches, Part II Sadik J. Al-Azm Sadik J. Al-Azm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 73–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-14-1-73 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sadik J. Al-Azm; Islamic Fundame…
Unbehagen in der Moderne. Aufklarung im Islam
The Satanic Verses Post Festum The Global, The Local, The Literary
Research Article| August 01 2000 The Satanic Verses Post Festum The Global, The Local, The Literary Sadik J. Al-Azm Sadik J. Al-Azm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 44–78. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-20-1-2-44 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sadik J. Al-Azm; The Satanic Verses Post Festum The Globa…
Islam, Terrorism and the West Today
114 viewpoint © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Die Welt des Islams 44, 1 Also available online – www.brill.nl VIEWPOINT ISLAM, TERRORISM AND THE WEST TODAY BY SADIK J. AL-AZM Damascus I. Personal I was in Sendai, Japan as a visiting professor at Tohoku University when the September 11, 2001 airborne assaults on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon fortress in Washington DC occurred. I hap- pened to be watching television when t…
Islam, Terrorism, and the West
Research Article| May 01 2005 Islam, Terrorism, and the West Sadik J. Al-Azm Sadik J. Al-Azm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 6–16. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-6 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sadik J. Al-Azm; Islam, Terrorism, and the West. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Mid…
Islam and the science–religion debates in modern times
Conflicts between science and religion, autonomous reason and divine revelation seem to continue in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim heritage and traditions. This holds true both in the secular West and in the Muslim East, in the scientifically and technologically most advanced societies as well as in the scientifically and technologically most backward cultures and countries. This article reviews some of the problems and issues involved in this persis…
Islam & Europe
Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Islamism
The phenomena of orientalism, occidentalism, and Islamism are at play in a variety of contexts today. This intervention, while not a systematic essay on the subject, presents a kind of collage of analyses, observations, criticisms, and commentaries dealing with several conventional and unconventional themes substantively related to these issues. Occidentalism, it is argued here, has taken various forms over the past few decades: the “Orientalism …
The “Turkish Model”
This article deals with the impact on the political forces in the Arab World in general and in Syria in particular of the free, democratic and peaceful accession to power of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey. It further examines how Syrian political movements, especially political Islam, are trying to make sense out of these recent “revolutionary” political developments in Turkey and how they can be applied to the Syrian case
Arab Nationalism, Islamism and the Arab Uprisings
When considering the Arab uprisings, it is necessary to examine two ingrained and regressive tendencies in Arab political life: the absence of meaningful change and the persistence of the ancien regime. Comparisons of the uprisings in Syria and Egypt reveal connections to classical European revolutionary politics. The Syrian revolution is also reminiscent of Arab revolutionary politics of the 1950s and 1960s. Traditional Arab nationalism is absen…
The New Middle East
The New Middle East is one of the first comprehensive books to critically examine the Arab popular uprisings of 2011–12. While these uprisings prompted a number of cursory publications, this volume contains meticulous and thoughtful reflections on the causes, drivers and effects of these seminal events on the internal, regional and international politics of the Middle East and North Africa. Although specific conditions in individual countries tha…
Critique of Religious Thought
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…
On Fundamentalisms
Sadik Al-Azm is one of today's foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offers innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. On Fundamentalisms includes essays on: Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered, Islam and the Science-Religion Debates in Modern Times, The Struggle for the Meaning of Islam, What is Islamism?, and The Takfir Syllogism.
Critique of Religious Thought
"With a new introduction by the author, translated by George Stergios, 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 attem…
On Fundamentalisms
Is Islam Secularizable? Challenging Political and Religious Taboos
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