Samman, Khaldoun.

The clash of modernities : the Islamist challenge to Arab, Jewish, and Turkish nationalism / Khaldoun Samman. - Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2011. - x, 261 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-252) and index.

Introduction : a personal example of a temporal script -- The colonizer's time machine and the discourse of "becoming modern" -- The anti-Semitic gaze and the occidentalization of the Jew in Zionist and Israeli nationalism -- The Kemalist acquiescence to the colonizer's time machine -- Arab time-travelers and cultural schizophrenia -- The Islamist time machine -- Women as the sign of the times -- Conclusion : thinking outside the time-space box of colonial modernity.

9781594516979 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2010016331


Nationalism--Philosophy.--Middle East
Civilization, Modern--Philosophy.
Nationalism--Islamic countries.
Nationalism--Israel.
Nationalism--Turkey.
Nationalism--Arab countries.


Middle East--Civilization--Philosophy.
Middle East--Civilization--Western influences.

DS63.5 / .S26 2011

320.540956