The Politics of Conceptualizing Islam and the West

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 89-96

  Aydin, Cemil ^a  

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EID: 34248056476     PISSN: 08926794     EISSN: 17477093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.2004.tb00479.x     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 1.
2. See Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1996)
3. Ali Gheissari, Iranian Intellectuals in the 20th Century (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1998)
4. Ali Mirsepassi, Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
5. Peter Waldman, “A Historian's Take on Islam Steers U.S. in Terrorism Fight,” Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2004, p. A1.
6. Lewis's book was criticized by several North American scholars of the Islamic world for the inaccuracies in its interpretative framework. See Juan Cole, “Review of Bernard Lewis's What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response,” Global Dialogue, January 27, 2003; available at www.juancole.com/essays/revlew. htm.
7. See also Adam Sabra, “What Is Wrong with What Went Wrong?” Middle East Report Online (August 2003); available at www.merip.org/mero/interventions/ sabra_interv.html.
8. Stephen N. Hay, Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and his Critics in Japan, China, and India (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970)
9. Ali Rahnema, An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari'ati (New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2000)
10. Marc Gallicchio, The African American Encounter with Japan & China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895–1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
11. Prasenjit Duara, “The Discourse of Civilization and Pan-Asianism,” Journal of World History 12, no. 1 (Spring 2001), pp. 99–130
12. Michael Adas, “Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on the Civilizing Mission Ideology,” in Prasenjit Duara, ed., Decolonization (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 78–100
13. Mark Bradley, Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919–1950 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000)
14. Erez Manela, “The Wilsonian Moment and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism: The Case of Egypt,” Diplomacy & Statecraft 12, no. 4 (2000), pp. 99–122.
15. Bobby S. Sayyid, A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism (London: Zed Books, 1997)
16. Ahmet Davutoglu, “Political and Institutional Dimensions of Secularization: A Comparative Analysis,” in John Esposito and Azzam Tamimi, eds., Islam and Secularism in the Middle East (New York: New York University Press, 2000), pp. 170–208.
17. Ahmed Riza, a secular intellectual and a leading follower of Auguste Comte's positivist ideas, wrote one of the most comprehensive critiques of “the West” in 1922. See Ahmed Riza, The Moral Bankruptcy of Western Policy Towards the East (Ankara, Turkey: Ministry of Culture and Tourism Publications, 1988).
18. Pollmark Polling Agency (Ankara), “Report on Turkish Public Opinion with Regard to Nato and the West” (July 2004).
19. Tariq Ramadan, “What Does America Have to Fear from Me? Virtue, Vice and My Visa,” International Herald Tribune, September 1, 2004, p. 6.
20. Daniel Pipes wrote in support of the decision in “Why Revoke Tariq Ramadan's U.S. Visa?” New York Sun, August 27, 2004, p. 9.
21. Ramadan responded in “Scholar under Siege Defends his Record: Tariq Ramadan Responds Point by Point to the ‘Unfounded Allegations’ of a Critic,” Chicago Tribune, August 31, 2004, p. C17.