Abdelwahab Meddeb's book is a crucial contribution to the debate around the West's relationship with Islam. An 'essay' in the classic sense, in it's brief compass Meddeb analyses Islam's relationship with the modern world and its fatal weakness - fundamentalism. Ranging from Medina at the time of the Prophet Mohammed through the Baghdad of the Abbasids, the impact of the Crusades and the beginnings of wahhabism in the eighteenth century and Nietzsche to the present, Meddeb shows how Islam's tendency towards fundamentalism has been exacerbated by the developments of modernity. Powerfully even-handed, the book identifies both the weaknesses of Islam in relating to modernity, as well as the failings of the West in its dealings with the Islamic world.
- ISBN10 0099459140
- ISBN13 9780099459149
- Publish Date 31 December 2098 (first published 21 August 2003)
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Vintage
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 208
- Language English