TY  - BOOK
AU  - ʻAẓm,Ṣādiq Jalāl
AU  - Stergios,George
TI  - Critique of Religious Thought: First English Translation of Naqd al-fikr ad-dini
SN  - 9783940924452
AV  - BP173.7 
U1  - 297.095692 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Gerlach Press
KW  - Islam
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Religious thought
KW  - Pensée religieuse
KW  - États arabes
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - fast
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
N1  - 9783940924452; 9783940924452; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Translatorâ#x80;#x99;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 Virginand the Eradication of the Traces of Aggression; 5 Deception in Contemporary Western Christian Thought; 6 Introduction to the Scientific-MaterialistConception of the Universe and its Development; Appendix 1 Documents from the Trial of the Author and PublisherDecember 1969-January 1970; Appendix 2 Statement of the Mufti of the Republic [Lebanon]about the Book â#x80;#x9C;Critique of Religious Thoughtâ#x80;#x9D
N2  - 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
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