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Sadik al-Azm's Critique of Religious Thought set off one of the the great Arab intellectual uproars of the twentieth century, leading to the author's imprisonment and trial for mocking religion and inciting sectarian conflict. As in his earlier Self-Criticism after the Defeat, Al-Azm takes on the taboos of the age and their sponsors: the religious elites. In this book, he attempts to awaken the Arab mind from its dogmatic slumber, leading it out of the Middle Ages and into a modern world characterized by science and rationality. Critique of Religious Thought is one of the most controversial and influential books about the role of religion in Arab politics. This is the authorised translation of Sadik Al-Azm's work, Naqd al-fikr ad-dini, originally published in Arabic in 1969. The 2014 edition includes an introduction by the author and translations by George Stergios and Mansour Ajami.
Price: £85.00
Pages: 240
Publisher: Gerlach Press
Imprint: Gerlach Press
Publication Date:
15 November 2014
ISBN: 9783940924445
Format: Hardcover
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Translator’s Acknowledgements
Introduction to the English Edition
Introduction
1 Scientific Culture and the Poverty of Religious Thought
2 The Tragedy of Satan (Iblis)
3 Reply to a Criticism
4 The Miracle of the Apparition of the Virgin and the Eradication of the Traces of Aggression
5 Deception in Contemporary Western Christian Thought
6 Introduction to the Scientific-Materialist Conception of the Universe and its Development
Appendix 1
Documents from the Trial of the Author and Publisher December 1969-January 1970 207
Appendix 2
Statement of the Mufti of the Republic [Lebanon] about the Book “Critique of Religious Thought”