Arab Modernities: Islamism, Nationalism, and Liberalism in the Post-Colonial Arab World

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Periodizing Arab Modernities: Toward a Political History of the Present
	Rise of Arab Nationalist Capitalism
	Between State and Private Capitalism
	Decline of Arab State Capitalism
	Contemporary Islamism
	Neo-Liberalism Triumphant
	Conclusion
Arab Liberalism: Abdallah Laroui and the Politics of the End of History
	An Intellectual Biography
	A Collective Problematic
	The Intellectual Elite and Social Change
	Historical Role of Intellectuals
	Three Kinds of State
	Two Kinds of Marxism
	Dialectics at a Standstill
	Defending Liberal Modernity
	Modernity and the State
	A New Vision of Modernity
	Historicism and History
	Conclusion
Tradition, Rationality, and Nationalism: Al- Jabri’s Critique of the “ Arab Mind”
	An Intellectual Biography
	Historical Context
	“Fundamentalist” Approaches to Tradition
	Toward a New Approach to Tradition
	Role of Philosophy in Social Change
	Two Philosophical Traditions
	Privatization, Liberalism, and Socialism
	Globalization as a New Economic System
	Social Justice and Democracy
	The Arab Bourgeoisie, the State, and Alternative Modernity
	Conclusion
Islamism and Modernity: Abdessalam Yassine and Islamizing Modernity
	An Intellectual Biography
	On the Historical Formation
	What is Modernity?
	Social Change, Politics, and
	Prophetic Method
	Commitment to the Movement
	Toward an Islamist State
	Shura or Democracy?
	On Ethnicity Politics
	On Women and Gender
	Conclusion
Toward A New Project of Modernity: Marxism and the Arab Left
	Applying Marxist Tools to Moroccan Society and Ideology
	Early Marx and the Project of Radical Democracy
	The Socialist Project
	A New Understanding of Arab Culture
	The Historical Mission of Intellectuals
	A Critique of Capitalist Globalization
	Tasks for the Moroccan/Arab Left
	Conclusion
Conclusion
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Index