This study of the relationship between Muslim culture and Western modernity, portrays a society bound to its own glorified history - yet facing an external reality from the West. The meeting of these two worlds leads to a profound distortion, especially in how the Muslim world sees itself.
ISBN: | 9780815605072 |
Publication date: | 30th November 1997 |
Author: | Darius Shayegan |
Publisher: | Syracuse University Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 198 pages |
Series: | Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East |
Genres: |
Philosophy Islam |