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Title: The Islamic Enlightenment

Subtitle: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason: 1798 to Modern Times

Author: Christopher de Bellaigue

Narrator: Charles Armstrong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

This absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam during the 19th and early 20th centuries offers a game-changing assessment of the Middle East. Beginning his account in 1798, de Bellaigue demonstrates how the Middle East has long welcomed modern ideals and practices, including the adoption of modern medicine, the emergence of women from seclusion, and the development of democracy. With trenchant political and historical insight, de Bellaigue further shows how the violence of an infinitesimally small minority is in fact the tragic blowback from that modernization. This revolutionary argument, which completely refutes the misconception that Muslims live in a benighted state of backwardness, reveals the folly of Westerners demanding modernity from their Islamic neighbors.

Members Reviews:

Enlightenment in Moslem countries

Good book, it gives you a glance of Moslem countries struggle toward democracy. This book didn't emphasize on economics aspects of the changes. Just I should add that enlightment hasn't happened in Islam yet, but it is on it's way among Moslem.