The clash of modernities : the Islamist challenge to Arab, Jewish, and Turkish nationalism - Samman, Khaldoun (Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, 2011)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-252) and index.
Keywords: Nationalism -- Middle East -- Philosophy; Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy; Nationalism -- Islamic countries; Nationalism -- Israel; Nationalism -- Turkey; Nationalism -- Arab countries; Middle East -- Civilization -- Philosophy; Middle East -- Civilization -- Western influences