Ralph M Coury
Biographic Data
| ID | 148049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph M Coury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph M |
| FAMILY NAME | Coury |
| SIGNATURE | COURY R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fairfield University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interrogating the Sacred: Radical Religious Revisionism, Agnosticism and Atheism in the Modern Arab World
The article analyzes the thought of modern Arab Muslim and Christian critics of religion (believing radical and left liberal revisionists, agnostics, and atheists) who have challenged prevailing religious repertoires of both Islamists and their liberal opponents. Topics include: traditional Orientalist understandings of the fragile role of reason in Arab societies; the construction of religion in the modern West and non-West; the influences that …
Sceptics of Islam: Revisionist Religion, Agnosticism and Disbelief in the Modern Arab World
Arab debates about the critical relationship between religion and modernity began in the early nineteenth century. Such debates are now integral to the struggle for power between a variety of political groups and their opponents, and are vital to understanding the modern Middle East. This unique volume introduces the writings of the Muslim and Arab Christian revisionist 'free-thinkers' who have tried to redefine the relationship. It challenges th…
Imperfectly symmetrical: A discussion of Gilbert Achcar’s The Arabs and the Holocaust
This review provides a summary and evaluation of Gilbert Achcar’s history of Arab attitudes to the Holocaust (and related matters, such as fascism) from the early 1930s until the present. The author’s ability to integrate a story of Arab intellectual and political diversity with the story of how this diversity has often been reduced to a monolithic caricature is found to be magisterial. The review ends with the kind of critical interrogation that…
A syllabus of errors: Pope Benedict XVI on Islam at Regensburg
Pope Benedict XVI's comments about Islam at the University of Regensburg on 12 September 2006 are examined here in terms of the traditions of Orientalism on which he draws and the political functions that they serve. The Pope portrays Islam as tending to irrational violence, in contrast to a Christianity based on a rapprochement between faith and the spirit of Greek philosophical inquiry, a rapprochement that is taken to be the foundation of Euro…
The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counterdiscourses Edited by Larbi Sadiki
The demonisation of pan-Arab nationalism
Although the denigration and misrepresentation of pan-Arab nationalism existed long before recent attempts to portray Saddam Hussein's regime as exceptionally heinous, threatening and a major source of terrorism, the demonisation of this profoundly important and evolving political force has been given further impetus by the imperative to justify current US Middle Eastern policy. The fallacies that inform reductionist and hostile approaches to pan…
Islam and Power in the Twentieth Century
Reviewed Works: The Arab-African and Islamic Worlds: Interdisciplinary Studies by R. Kevin Lacey, Ralph M. Coury; Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger by Adeline Masquelier; Controlling Knowledge: Religion, Power, and Schooling in a West African Muslim Society by Louis Brenner At the time of publication, author Heather J. Sharkey was associated with Trinity College. Currently, she is a faculty…
The persistence and rehabilitation of Orientalism: The case of Paul Bowles
Introduction to the Special Issue of the Muslim World, “Islam and Nationalism”
A Neoimperial Discourse on the Middle East
The critique of orientalism has had a major impact upon MiddleEastern and Islamic studies and in other areas of western and Americanintellectual life. However, despite this impact, there is no question that traditionalorientalist representations of the Arab and Islamic maintain a strikingvirulence, that they remain deeply marked by imperialist and racistlegacies, and that scholars often recoup and rehabfitate such perspectiveseven when they seem …
The Arab Nationalism of Makram 'Ubayd
Journal Article THE ARAB NATIONALISM OF MAKRAM 'UBAYD Get access RALPH M. COURY RALPH M. COURY Fairfield UniversityConnecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 1995, Pages 76–91, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/6.1.76 Published: 01 January 1995
The Politics of the Funereal: The Tomb of Saad Zaghlul
The following article represents a preliminary investigation of the controversy that raged over the tomb of Saad Zaghlul, the leader of the Wafd party and the Revolution of 1919, from his death in August, 1927, until his final interment in June, 1936. The controversy provides an insight into Egyptian partisan politics. It is, however, also important for an understanding of the ideological dimensions of art and architecture in a more general sense…
Egyptians in Jerusalem: Their Role in the General Islamic Conference of 1931
"Arabian Ethnicity" and Arab Nationalism: The Case of Abd al-Rahman Azzam
ment, as a Wafdist and then as an independent, and finally as the first Secretary General of the Arab League, has long been recognized. In respect to Egypt, in particular, Azzam has been regarded, by both Westerners and Arabs, as one of the first Egyptians to promote Arab nationalism. There is, in fact, a scholarly tradition which has maintained that Ali Mahir and Azzam, the former working under the latter' s influence and both working as the ins…
Who “Invented” Egyptian Arab Nationalism
A number of writers on Egyptian Arab nationalism have maintained that this nationalism originated in religious motives, that it was initially exploited by the Palace and its allies and only then reluctantly adopted by the Wafd for primarily party purposes. In an essay entitled “Pan Arabism and British Policy” Kedourie links the initiation of an active pan-Arab policy to King Faruq and his “coadjutors and instruments” Ali Mahir and Abd al-Rahman A…
Who “Invented” Egyptian Arab Nationalism? Part 2
Part 1, ( IJMES , 14 [1982], 249–281) presented arguments in favor of the first of two major contentions in respect to the development of Egyptian Arab nationalism between the two world wars; namely, that a rigid dichotomization between an assumed Arab-Islamic orientation of the Palace and a secular-liberal, Egyptian orientation of the Wafd and other parties is false. In the preceding segment I tried to show that in the interwar period both the W…
Who “Invented” Egyptian Arab Nationalism
A number of writers on Egyptian Arab nationalism have maintained that this nationalism originated in religious motives, that it was initially exploited by the Palace and its allies and only then reluctantly adopted by the Wafd for primarily party purposes. In an essay entitled “Pan Arabism and British Policy” Kedourie links the initiation of an active pan-Arab policy to King Faruq and his “coadjutors and instruments” Ali Mahir and Abd al-Rahman A…
Who “Invented” Egyptian Arab Nationalism? Part 2
Part 1, ( IJMES , 14 [1982], 249–281) presented arguments in favor of the first of two major contentions in respect to the development of Egyptian Arab nationalism between the two world wars; namely, that a rigid dichotomization between an assumed Arab-Islamic orientation of the Palace and a secular-liberal, Egyptian orientation of the Wafd and other parties is false. In the preceding segment I tried to show that in the interwar period both the W…
The demonisation of pan-Arab nationalism
Although the denigration and misrepresentation of pan-Arab nationalism existed long before recent attempts to portray Saddam Hussein's regime as exceptionally heinous, threatening and a major source of terrorism, the demonisation of this profoundly important and evolving political force has been given further impetus by the imperative to justify current US Middle Eastern policy. The fallacies that inform reductionist and hostile approaches to pan…
The Politics of the Funereal: The Tomb of Saad Zaghlul
The following article represents a preliminary investigation of the controversy that raged over the tomb of Saad Zaghlul, the leader of the Wafd party and the Revolution of 1919, from his death in August, 1927, until his final interment in June, 1936. The controversy provides an insight into Egyptian partisan politics. It is, however, also important for an understanding of the ideological dimensions of art and architecture in a more general sense…
Egyptians in Jerusalem: Their Role in the General Islamic Conference of 1931
Who “Invented” Egyptian Arab Nationalism
A number of writers on Egyptian Arab nationalism have maintained that this nationalism originated in religious motives, that it was initially exploited by the Palace and its allies and only then reluctantly adopted by the Wafd for primarily party purposes. In an essay entitled “Pan Arabism and British Policy” Kedourie links the initiation of an active pan-Arab policy to King Faruq and his “coadjutors and instruments” Ali Mahir and Abd al-Rahman A…
Who “Invented” Egyptian Arab Nationalism? Part 2
Part 1, ( IJMES , 14 [1982], 249–281) presented arguments in favor of the first of two major contentions in respect to the development of Egyptian Arab nationalism between the two world wars; namely, that a rigid dichotomization between an assumed Arab-Islamic orientation of the Palace and a secular-liberal, Egyptian orientation of the Wafd and other parties is false. In the preceding segment I tried to show that in the interwar period both the W…
"Arabian Ethnicity" and Arab Nationalism: The Case of Abd al-Rahman Azzam
ment, as a Wafdist and then as an independent, and finally as the first Secretary General of the Arab League, has long been recognized. In respect to Egypt, in particular, Azzam has been regarded, by both Westerners and Arabs, as one of the first Egyptians to promote Arab nationalism. There is, in fact, a scholarly tradition which has maintained that Ali Mahir and Azzam, the former working under the latter' s influence and both working as the ins…
The Politics of the Funereal: The Tomb of Saad Zaghlul
The following article represents a preliminary investigation of the controversy that raged over the tomb of Saad Zaghlul, the leader of the Wafd party and the Revolution of 1919, from his death in August, 1927, until his final interment in June, 1936. The controversy provides an insight into Egyptian partisan politics. It is, however, also important for an understanding of the ideological dimensions of art and architecture in a more general sense…
Egyptians in Jerusalem: Their Role in the General Islamic Conference of 1931
The Arab Nationalism of Makram 'Ubayd
Journal Article THE ARAB NATIONALISM OF MAKRAM 'UBAYD Get access RALPH M. COURY RALPH M. COURY Fairfield UniversityConnecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 1995, Pages 76–91, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/6.1.76 Published: 01 January 1995
A Neoimperial Discourse on the Middle East
The critique of orientalism has had a major impact upon MiddleEastern and Islamic studies and in other areas of western and Americanintellectual life. However, despite this impact, there is no question that traditionalorientalist representations of the Arab and Islamic maintain a strikingvirulence, that they remain deeply marked by imperialist and racistlegacies, and that scholars often recoup and rehabfitate such perspectiveseven when they seem …
The persistence and rehabilitation of Orientalism: The case of Paul Bowles
Introduction to the Special Issue of the Muslim World, “Islam and Nationalism”
Islam and Power in the Twentieth Century
Reviewed Works: The Arab-African and Islamic Worlds: Interdisciplinary Studies by R. Kevin Lacey, Ralph M. Coury; Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger by Adeline Masquelier; Controlling Knowledge: Religion, Power, and Schooling in a West African Muslim Society by Louis Brenner At the time of publication, author Heather J. Sharkey was associated with Trinity College. Currently, she is a faculty…
The demonisation of pan-Arab nationalism
Although the denigration and misrepresentation of pan-Arab nationalism existed long before recent attempts to portray Saddam Hussein's regime as exceptionally heinous, threatening and a major source of terrorism, the demonisation of this profoundly important and evolving political force has been given further impetus by the imperative to justify current US Middle Eastern policy. The fallacies that inform reductionist and hostile approaches to pan…
The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counterdiscourses Edited by Larbi Sadiki
A syllabus of errors: Pope Benedict XVI on Islam at Regensburg
Pope Benedict XVI's comments about Islam at the University of Regensburg on 12 September 2006 are examined here in terms of the traditions of Orientalism on which he draws and the political functions that they serve. The Pope portrays Islam as tending to irrational violence, in contrast to a Christianity based on a rapprochement between faith and the spirit of Greek philosophical inquiry, a rapprochement that is taken to be the foundation of Euro…
Imperfectly symmetrical: A discussion of Gilbert Achcar’s The Arabs and the Holocaust
This review provides a summary and evaluation of Gilbert Achcar’s history of Arab attitudes to the Holocaust (and related matters, such as fascism) from the early 1930s until the present. The author’s ability to integrate a story of Arab intellectual and political diversity with the story of how this diversity has often been reduced to a monolithic caricature is found to be magisterial. The review ends with the kind of critical interrogation that…
Sceptics of Islam: Revisionist Religion, Agnosticism and Disbelief in the Modern Arab World
Arab debates about the critical relationship between religion and modernity began in the early nineteenth century. Such debates are now integral to the struggle for power between a variety of political groups and their opponents, and are vital to understanding the modern Middle East. This unique volume introduces the writings of the Muslim and Arab Christian revisionist 'free-thinkers' who have tried to redefine the relationship. It challenges th…
Interrogating the Sacred: Radical Religious Revisionism, Agnosticism and Atheism in the Modern Arab World
The article analyzes the thought of modern Arab Muslim and Christian critics of religion (believing radical and left liberal revisionists, agnostics, and atheists) who have challenged prevailing religious repertoires of both Islamists and their liberal opponents. Topics include: traditional Orientalist understandings of the fragile role of reason in Arab societies; the construction of religion in the modern West and non-West; the influences that …
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