Böcker av Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri

This lively interrogation of the building blocs of Western conceptions of a modern state is a classic text and is vital for all students of modern Islamic political thought.

Charts a route towards modernity via the proposition that respect for textualism and tradition are not inconsistent with rationalism and that both history and philosophy are key to the evolution of knowledge systems and ways of reasoning in Arab culture. This book provides an insight into the currents of contemporary Arab thought.