Visiting and ad hoc Appointments
Invited speaker (for purposes other
than conferences)
Invited participant in conferences
Books 2: Collections of my Articles
Articles in Arabic (approximate
titles)
Occasional writings for newspapers
and other periodicals
Name: Aziz Al-Azmeh
Date of Birth: Damascus, 24 July 1947
Nationality: British
1971
License-ès-Lettres in Philosophy and Sociology, University of Alexandria/Beirut
Arab University.
1973
Magister Artium in Philosophy with Islamic Studies and Political Science as a
subsidiary subjects, Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen.
1977
Doctor of Philosophy in Oriental
Studies, University of Oxford
1993
The Republican Order of Merit, for services to Arab culture, was conferred by
the President of Tunisia in May.
1993-94
Nuffield Foundation Fellow in the Social Sciences.
1994-5
Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), Berlin.
1996-8
Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), Berlin.
1998
Fellow of the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Studies, Uppsala.
1999
Visiting Scholar, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.
1999
Directeur de Recherches Associé, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris.
2000
Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio.
2001
Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge.
2001
Directeur de Recherches Associé, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris.
Distinguished
Visiting Professor, Humanities Center, Central European University, Budapest
(from 2002),
Fellow,
Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest (2005)
1980-81
Fellow of the Centre for Near East Studies, American University of Beirut.
1981-83
Lecturer in the Faculty of Letters, Kuwait University.
1983-December
1984 Research Fellow, University of Exeter.
1985-1996
Sharjah Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (on leave at St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1989-90,
1993-94).
2000-2002
Zayed Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of History, American University
of Beirut
1993
Professor at the doctoral summer school of the Arab Sociological Association
(Tunis).
1995
Visiting Professor, Center for the Study of Islam and of Muslim-Christian
Understanding, Georgetown University, Fall semester
1996
Professor at the postgraduate summer school of the Arbeitskreis Moderne und
Islam (Berlin).
1997
Professor at the postgraduate summer school of the Arbeitskreis Moderne und
Islam (Berlin)
1999
Visiting Professor, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures,
Columbia University, New York, Fall semester
2000
Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations,
Yale University, Spring semester
2000
Professor at the Mediterranean Studies doctoral summer school, Robert Schuman
Centre of Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence
2001
Sultan Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, February
2002
Cleveland Dodge Distinguished Visiting Professor, American University of Cairo,
February
2004
Professor at the summer university course on Reconsidering Islamic reformism,
Central European University, Budapest
2004
Professor at the summer university course on Changing Landscapes of Late
Antiquity, Central European University, Budapest
Delivered
the following named lectures:
The
Regents' Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley (2001), the
Cleveland Dodge Distinguished Visiting Professor lecture at the American
University of Cairo (2002), a Ringvorlesung in the series Kontinuität und
Wandel: Geschichtsbilder in verschiedenen Fächern und Kulturen (Zürich:
University of Zürich and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule – 1998), : the
Berliner Festspiele and the Einstein Forum lecture in the series ‘Erbschaft
Unserer Zeit’ at the Staatsbibliothek Berlin (1996), a Ringvorlesung at the Free
University, Berlin (1996), the 19th George Antonius Lecture at St. Antony's
College, Oxford (1994), the Distinguished Arabist Lecture at New England
College (1991).
at, among others:
The Universities of Cambridge (School of
Divinity; Centre for Middle Eastern Studies), London (Birkbeck College,
Department of Politics and Sociology), Oxford (The Oriental Institute, the Race
Relations Seminar, The Near East History Group), Essex (Centre for Theoretical
Studies in the Social Sciences and Humanities), Hull (Department of Sociology),
St Andrews (Department of Arabic), Marrakech (Faculty of Arts, Faculty of
Science), Damascus (Faculty of Letters), Lund (Faculty of Theology), Toronto
(Religious Studies and Middle East Studies); Uppsala (Faculty of
Theology); Balamand; The International
University of Japan (Middle East Studies); The Aga Khan University (Karachi);
The American University of Sharjah; Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi),
Jamia Millia Islamiya (New Delhi); India International Centre (New Delhi); the
Central European University, Budapest (the Rectorate); Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda al-`Arabiyya
(Beirut), Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda al-`Arabiyya and The Cultural League
(Tripoli, Lebanon), Centre for Women's Research (Amman); The American
University of Beirut (Center for Behavioral Research); The Lebanese American
University (Beirut); The Free University, Berlin (Institute of Politics,
Institute of Islamic Studies, Institute of Ethnology), The University of
California, Berkeley (Mellon Foundation Symposium), The University of Virginia,
Charlottesville (joint invitation from the departments of Government,
Philosophy, and History), The University of Chicago (Divinity School),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (The Aga Khan Program for Islamic
Architecture), Harvard University (Centre of Middle East Studies), Princeton
University (Department of Near Eastern Studies), Yale University (The Witney
Humanities Centre), the Tunisian University (Faculty of Letters and Social
Studies), the Zeitouna University (Tunis), the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales (Paris), the Collège International de Philosophie (Paris),
Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Nantes),
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Madrid), The Einstein
Forum (Potsdam), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), The Nehru Memorial Museum and
Library (New Delhi), The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (New
Delhi), The Arbetermas Bildnings Forbund (Stockholm), The Haus der Kulturen der
Welt (Berlin), The International Institute for Islamic Thought and Civilization
(Kuala Lumpur), The Royal Institute of International Affairs (London), Centre
d'Etudes et de Documentation Economique, Juridique et Sociale (Cairo), Arab
Lawyers' Union (Cairo), The Shoman Foundation (Amman), The Royal Cultural
Centre (Amman), Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (Rabat), the
Goethe Forum (Munich); The Cultural and Scientific Association (Dubai), the
Zayed Centre for Heritage and History
(al-`Ayn).
as chairman, speaker, respondent, or keynote speaker in:
Aix-en-Provence (under the auspices of
IREMAM), Aleppo (Institute for the History of Arabic Science), Alexandria (The
Swedish Institute), Al-`Ayn, United Arab Emirates (Zayed Centre for Heritage
and Folklore), Amman (Bir Zeit University; The Joranian University ; The
Association of Arab-American University Graduates;), Amsterdam and Oosterbeek
(The Erasmus Ascension Symposium, 1996), Århus (Centre for Cultural Studies,
University of Århus), Beirut (American University of Beirut; Arab Organisation
for Translation; Arab Sociey for Economic Research; Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda
al-`Arabiyya; UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia; The United
Nations Development Programme, Bahithat/Multaqa al-mar`a wa’dh-Dhakira/American
University of Beirut), Berlin (Humboldt University, Centre Franco-Allemand de
Recherches en Sciences Sociales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Buenos Aires
(International Political Science Association), Budapest (Central European
University), Cairo (Al-Ahram Centre for International Studies, Markaz Dirasat
al-Wahda al-`Arabiyya), Cambridge (Department of Social Anthropology and the
Middle East Centre), Casablanca (Fondation du Roi Abdel Aziz , Institut du Monde Arabe), Chicago
(University of Chicago, Divinity School), Dakar (UNESCO), Damascus (University
of Damascus and The jordanian university),
Fez (Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda al-`Arabiyya), New Delhi (India Social
Institute), Granada (The Agha Khan Trust for Culture), Guernsey (the Ford
Foundation), Hammamet, Tunisia (The Tunisian Society for Philosophical
Studies), Honolulu (University of Hawaii), Kairouan (Faculty of Letters; Centre
for Islamic Studies), Kuala Lumpur (International Institute for Islamic Thought
and Civilization), Kuwait (The Graduates' Society, Kuwait University), Kyoto
(International Institute for Advanced Studies), Leeds (Leeds University), Leiden (Leiden Institute for the Study of
Religion), London (the journal Maw®qif;
School of Oriental and African Studies; The Wellcome Institute for the History
of Medicine; the Arts Council of Great Britain; The Arab Human Rights
Organization; The City University), Lund (The Nordic Society for Middle East
Studies), Marrakesh (The United Nations and the Government of Morocco: The
Fourth Global Forum), Oxford (All Souls College; Association of Arab-American
University Graduates; Oxford Arab Group; Oxford Union Society), Paris (CNRS;
College Internationale de Philosophie; Bertelsmann Stiftung; Institut du Monde
Arabe, UNESCO); Sanaa (The University), Sousse (Tunisian Historical Sociey),
Tunis (Ministry of Culture; UNESCO), Washington D.C. (The World Bank, The
American University; The Association of Arab-American University Graduates),
Varenna (Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei), Wilton Park (Royal Institute of
International Affairs).
Taught undergraduate and postgraduate
courses across the whole thematic range of Arab and Islamic historical studies,
medieval and modern, at the the Central European University, the American
University of Beirut, Yale University, Columbia University, and the University
of Exeter. Taught a number of advanced interdisciplinary courses, often in
collaboration with colleagues from different fields, some designed for summer
schools or thematic working groups (for example, a year-long doctoral and post-doctoral seminar held at the
Berlin Institute of Advanced Study on "Culture and the Transferability of
Concepts in the Social and Human Sciences"; other interdisciplinary
courses of a more routine nature (for example, seminars in the academic year
2002-3 on medieval political thought Christian, Islamic and Jewish, and on the
school of the Annales, at the Central
European University)
Supervised
over the years a considerable number of doctoral and master's theses to a
successful conclusion, both at universities where I was a member of staff and
as an external supervisor. Acted as internal and external examiner to doctoral
and master's defences at universities in the UK, in Europe, and in the Arab
World.
Among postgraduate courses taught: Arabic
sources for the history of medieval Europe (CEU), Introduction to Arab cultural
history (CEU), medieval Arabic historical sources (CEU), the Annales school
(CEU), medieval political thought (CEU), Islam and Late Antiquity (CEU), modern
Arabic historical writing (American University of Beirut), topics and methods
in Middle East studies (American University of Beirut), medieval Arabic
historical sources (American University of Beirut), Ibn Khaldun (American
University of Beirut), Historiography (American University of Beirut), Arabic
historiography (Columbia and Yale),
Islamic political thought (Columbia and Yale).
Among undergraduate courses taught (all at the University of
Exeter): medieval Islamic history (annually), medieval Muslim societies,
history of the Arabs, Islamic theology and philosophy, Ibn Khaldun.
Initiator
of the annual colloquium organized by the Department of Arabic and Islamic
Studies, University of Exeter. Convenor of the first three such colloquia
(1984-87). Convener of conferences at the Aspen Institute, Berlin, with the
support of the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, and the Centre Marc Bloch
de Recherches en Sciences Sociales, Berlin, and at the Institute of Advanced
Study, Berlin. Convenor, with the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (with Dr.
Nadia al-Bagdadi) of a colloquium on "Mapping the Gaze: Vision in Arab
Culture". Covenor, with the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, and the
Central European university, Budapest, of the colloquium on "Islam in Late
Antiquity". Project director of the second in the series of Transatlantic
Dialogues, held at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, sponsored by the
Central European University, Budapest, and financed by the Carnegie Institute.
Convenor of an international conference on the UNDP Arab Human Development
Reports, with the Central European University, Budapest, al-Akhawayn
University, Ifren, Morocco, the UNDP, and the Ford Foundation, held under the
patronage of HM King Muhammad VI.
Co-Director (with Dr. Nadia al-Bagdadi) of the summer university course on Reconsidering Islamic reformism, Central European University, Budapest
Former
member of Senate and of the Board of the Faculty of Arts at the University of
Exeter. Service on various university committees. Consultant to ALECSO (Arab
League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization), UNDP, UNITAR (United
Nations Institute for Training and Research (Dakar), The World Bank, the
Council of Europe, BBC television, BBC World Service, the Open University, and
various publishers and research organizations.
Assessor
for professorial appointments and promotions at universities in the UK, Jordan,
the United States, and Malaysia.
Referee
for research projects presented to various foundations and other funding
agencies. Assessor of applications for fellowship at various institutes for
advanced study and other research organisms.
Member
of the Arbeitskreis Moderne und Islam, Institute for Advanced Studies, Berlin
(conferences, selections of Fellows for the Institute, running a post-doctoral
fellowships programme, mounting an annual doctoral and post-doctoral summer
school)
Member
of the Scientific Board of the Member of the International Advisory Board,
Center for Historical Studies, Central European University
Member
of the Advisory Board of the Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
(online)
Member
of the Consultative Committee of the Arab Organisation for Translation,
Beirut, and Chairman of the Humanities
and Social Sciences committee.
Membership
of various committees involving the Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), IREMAM
(Aix-en-Provence), the King Abdul Aziz Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human
Sciences (Casablanca), the Institut Français des Relations Internationales
(Paris), The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (Athens) --
chairman of the project "Islam and Christianity in the 21st.
century", UNESCO, the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, the Centre
Marc Bloch de Recherches en Sciences Sociales, Berlin, UNESCO International
Centre for Human Sciences, Byblos, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Moderner
Orient, Berlin, the Free and Humboldt
Universities, Berlin.
Sometime
member of the Permanent Consultative Committee of the Arab Community Conference
in the United Kingdom.
Sometime
Chairman of the British Section of the Arab Human Rights Organization.
Former
member of the Board of Directors of Arts Worldwide (London).
Member
of the Arab Thought Forum, Amman
Member
of the consultative Board of the series Culture, Religion and International
Relations published in London by Pelgrave Publishers
Member
of the editorial board of the Medieval
History Journal
Member
of the consultative board of the quarterly Ab‘®d.
Member
of the Board of Governors of the monthly Af®q
al-Isl®m.
Member
of the Editorial Committe of the journal Al-Nahj.
Formerly
editor of Al-Mustaqbal al-‘Arab¬.
Former
member of the editorial boards of the Review
of Middle East Studies and of Dir®s®t
‘Arabiyya.
Broadcaster
on television in the United Kingdom (The Late Show and Fifth Column on BBC2;
Bandung File and Rear Window on Channel 4; interviews on BBC2 and Channel 4);
television interviews with Arte and in Tunisia, Morocco, the Yemen, and with various Arab satellite
and cable channels. Radio interviews and other programmes (BBC Radio 4 and BBC
World Service; Süddeutsche Rundfunk;
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Sender Freies Berlin (3rd. programme),
Westdeutscher Funk, and programmes in Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia, and the Yemen).
Interviews in various periodicals, Arab and international.
1981
Ibn Khaldun in Modern Scholarship,
London, Third World Centre for Research and Publishing, pp xxix, 333.
1982
Ibn Khaldun: An Essay in Reinterpretation
, London, Frank Cass, pp. 176. Paperback edition: London, Routledge, 1990;
paperback impression: Cairo, American University of Cairo Press, 1993.2nd. edn.
(hardback and paperback), Budapest, Central European University Press, 2003,
pp. 163. Arabic translation by A. Nasif, Beirut, Dar al-Tali‘a 1983; 2nd ed.,
1987.
1983
Historical Writing and Historical
Knowledge: Introduction to the Craft of Historical Writing in Arab-Islamic
Culture (in Arabic), Beirut, Dar al-Tali‘a; 2nd ed., 1995; pp.151
1986
Arabic Thought and Islamic Societies
, London, Croom Helm, pp.xii, 295
1991
Arabs and Barbarians: Medieval Arabic
Ethnology and Ethnography (in Arabic) - London: Riad El-Rayyes Books, pp.
246.
1992
Secularism in Modern Arab Life and
Thought (in Arabic) - Beirut, Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda al-`Arabiyya. pp.378;
2nd edition, 1998.
1997
Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in
Muslim, Christian, and Pagan Polities, London: I B Tauris. pp. 296;
paperback edition, 2000. Arabic translation in press by Qudmus Publishers, Damascus.
2000
Secularism: A Dialogue (in Arabic --
with `A. al-Masiri), Damascus, Dar al-Fikr al-Mu`asir, pp. 334.
2003 Constantine Zureik (in Arabic), Beirut,
Institute for Palestine Studies, pp. 297
1987
The Politics and the History of
'Heritage' (in Arabic), Beirut, Dar al-Tali‘a and Casablanca: Manshurat
‘Uyun; 2nd. ed., 1990. pp.174.
1993
Islams and Modernities , London,
Verso, pp.157. A second edition, incorporating two further chapters, appeared
in 1996; 197 pp. Electronic version: New York, Questia Online Library,
2001.German translation by Ulrich Enderwitz as Die Islamisierung des Islam
, Frankfurt, Campus Verlag, 1996; 244 pp. Turkish translation by Elcin Gen as Islamlar ve Moderniteler, Istanbul,
Iletisim, 2003 (Politika, 45); pp.
278. A French translation is being commissioned by Actes Sud, Paris
1996
Religion and Society in the Contemporary
Arab World, (in Arabic) Beirut,
Dar al-Tali‘a, pp 232; 2nd revised edition,
2002, pp. 255.
1988
Islamic Law: Social and Historical
Contexts (London: Routledge); 2nd. impression, 1989. Turkish translation by
Fethi Gedikli as Sosyal ve Tarihi Baglami
Icinde Islam Hukuku, Istanbul, I¤ Yayincilik, 1992.
1995
(with Fawwaz Trabulsi) Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq: Unknown Works, with an Intoduction (in Arabic), Beirut,
Riad El-Rayyes Books; pp. 420 .
2000
Ibn Taimiyya: An Anthology, with an
Introduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riyad al-Rayyes Books; pp. 499.
2000 Al-Mawardi: An Anthology, with an
Introduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riad al-Rayyes Books; pp. 333.
2000 Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab: An Anthology, with an
Introduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riad al-Rayyes Books; pp. 151.
2000
Ibn Khaldun's History: An Anthology,
with an Intoduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riyad al-Rayyes Books; pp. 297.
2001
Abu Bakr al-Razi: An Anthology, with
an Introduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riyad El-Rayyes Books, pp. 203
2001 Al-Mas`udi: An Anthology, with an
Introduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riyad El-Rayyes Books, pp. 419
2002
Ibn al-Rewandi: An Anthology ,with an
Introduction (in Arabic), Beirut, Riad El-Rayyes Books, pp. 139
2004
(with Janos Bak), Monotheistic Kingship. The Medieval Variants,
Budapest, Central European University Press
1989
Editor for the articles on Islamic subjects for the British and Commonwealth
edition of the Columbia Encyclopedia,
(The Longmans Encyclopedia, London).
Consultant
Editor, Chronicles of the Crusades,
ed. Elizabeth Hallam, New York and London, Weidenfekd and Nicolson, 1989
Initiator
and sometime General Editor of the Exeter
Arabic and Islamic Series.
1986 Islamic Studies and the European
Imagination. Inaugural Lecture, Exeter, University of Exeter, Department of
Arabic and Islamic Studies, pp.18. A shorter version appeared in The Times Higher Education Supplement,
19 and 26/12/1986; reprinted in my Islams
and Modernities.
1992
"Authenticity" and the Flight
from Reality, London, Al-Saqi Books (in Arabic) - pamphlet containing the
text of my article "Authenticity and its Cognates" consolidated with
an Arabic translation of my "Islamist Revivalism and Western
Ideologies", pp. 87.
1996
Reconstituting Islam, Washington,
D.C., Georgetown University, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Occasional
Papers Series, pp. 26; Swedish translation as "Att rekonstituera
islam", in Tidskrift för
mellanösternstudier, n. 2, 1998, pp. 4-21
2003
L'Obscurantisme postmoderne et la
question musulmane, Paris, Sindbad-Acted Sud, pp. 55 (translation by Y.
Jraissati of "Postmodern Obscurantism" below)
2004
After the Fact: Reading Tocqueville in
Baghdad, Budapest, Central European University (CEU Occasional Papers, no. 1), pp. 28
1981
"Considerations on Contemporary Islamic Movements", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 17, no.6, pp.48-58.
"The Notion of Cultural
Authenticity", Al-Karmel 1,
no.2, pp.80-98.
"The Expression of Orientalist
Notions", Al-Mustaqbal al-‘Arabi
32, pp.43-62.
"The Notion of the Political in Islamic
Thought", Al-Fikr al-‘Arabi 3, no.22, pp.281-291.
1982
"Religion, Culture and the Concept of Ideology", Al-Fikr al-‘Arabi al-Mu‘asir 20-22, pp.25-36.
1983
"The Politics and History of 'Heritage'", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 19, no.8,
pp.60-92.
1985
"Objective" Marxism and the End of History: A Discussion of the Ideas
of Abdallah Laroui', Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 21, no.3, pp.3-27.
[All
the above articles were reprinted in my The
Politics and History of 'Heritage']
1986
"The Discourse on the Nation and the Politics of Discourse", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 23, no.1, pp.52-59.
1987
"The Historicity of the Reason and the Critique of Reason", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 23, no.5, pp.3-20.
Reprinted in The Politics and History of
'Heritage'.
1990
"Myth, Text, and History", Islam
and Modernity (in Arabic - London, Al-Saqi Books), pp.259-284. Reprinted in
Religion and Society in the Contemporary
Arab World.
"Authenticity and its Cognates", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 26, no. 12, pp.31-52.
1993
"Religion and the World in the Arab Present", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 29, no. 5-6, pp.3-17. Reprinted in Qadaya Fikriyya 13/14 (1993),
pp.346-355. French translation as "Le religieux et le temporel dans le
present arabe", Revue d'Etudes
Palestiniennes 49 (1993), pp.65-80; German translation as "Imaginäre
Welten des Islamismus: Das Religiöse und das Weltliche in der arabischen
Gegenwart", Merkur 49, no. 7
(1995), pp 582-594; English translation as “The Religious and the Secular in
Contemporary Arab Life”, in the second edition of my Islams and Modernities,
pp. 458. The Arabic original is reprinted in Religion and Society in the Contemporary Arab World
"Secularism in the Mashriqi Nahda", Al-Ma‘rifa (Damascus) 32, no.360, pp.8-27.
"The Islamisation of Knowledge and the
Politics of the Irrational", Qadaya
Fikriyya 13/14, pp.407-414.
1994
"Secularism and the Transformation of Arab Societies: A Response to
Critics", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 30,
no. 11-12, pp 3-19. Reprinted in Religion
and Society in the Contemporary Arab World.
"Arab Societies and the Question of
Democracy", Al-Nahj 11, no. 37,
pp 197-208. Reprinted in Religion and
Society in the Contemporary Arab World.
1995
"Irrationalism in Modern Arab Thought", Abwab, 4 (Spring), pp 22-35. Reprinted in Religion and Society in the Contemporary Arab World.
"The
Renaissance Outsider" (with Fawwaz Traboulsi), Introduction to our edition
of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq: Unknown Works,
Beirut, Riad el-Rayyes Books, pp. 7-47.
1996
"Tradition and Globalisation", Al-Nahj
6, pp 86-100; reprinted in Religion and
Society in the Contemporary Arab
World, pp 33-48, and in The Arab
World and Alternative Projects for Integration, Beirut, Markaz Dirasat
al-Wahda al-`Arabiyya and Cairo, Arab Society for Economic Research, 1997, pp.
87-102
1997
"The Limits of Reformist Discourse", Dirasat ‘Arabiyya 33, no.
9-10, pp. 2-12. Reprinted in my Religion
and Society, 2nd. ed., pp. 125-138
1998
"History, Arab Nationalism, and Secularism: Constantin Zureik in
Counterpoint", Majallat al-Dirasat
al-Filastiniyya 35, pp. 3-22. Reprinted in al-Tariq, 60/4(2001), pp. 100-115
1999
"Whither the Nahda ? Politics
and the Attrition of Modernism", in Abwab
21, pp. 9-28; also in `Asr al-nahda:
muqaddimat libaraliyya lil-hadatha, Beirut. Rene Mu`awwad Foundation and
al-Nadi al-Thaqafi al-`Arabi, 2000, pp. 75-95.
2001
" An Investigation of Current Concepts and Distinctions" (in Arabic),
in Abwab, 29, pp. 9-27, reprinted as
"Religion, Culture, Political Culture: An Investigation of Concepts and
Distinctions" in my Religion and
Society, 2nd. ed., pp. 66-79
2001
"The Global Environment" (in Arabic) in Towards an Arab Civilisation, Beirut, Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda
al-`Arabiyya, Beirut, pp. 167-188 (Discussions and comments: pp. 189-228)
Articles
in European Languages:
1976
"What is the Islamic City", Rev.
of Middle Eastern Studies 2, pp. 31-52.
"The Progressive Forces", in Essays on the Crisis in Lebanon , ed. R.
Owen, London, pp. 59-72.
1979
"The Muqaddima and Kitab al-‘Ibar; Perspectives from a
Common Formula", The Maghreb Review
4, no.1.
1981
"The Articulation of Orientalism", in Arab Studies Quarterly 3, pp.384-402.
1984
"L'annalistique entre l'histoire et le pouvoir: Une conception de
l'histoire sous-jacente aux chroniques, biographies et gestes dans l'aire
culturelle arabo-islamique", Histoire
et diversité des cultures, ed. UNESCO, Paris, pp.95-116. (A Spanish
translation appeared under the title Historia
y diversidad de las culturas, Barcelona, 1984), pp.118-143.
1986
"Histoire et narration dans l'historiographie arabe", Annales, Economies, Sociétés, Civilizations
41, no. 2, pp.409-430.
"Wahhabite Polity" in Arabia and the Gulf; From Traditional
Society to the Modern States, ed. I.R. Netton, London, Croom Helm,
pp.75-90. Reprinted in Aziz Al-Azmeh, Islams
and Modernities. London 1993.
1987
"Islamic Political Thought" and "Ibn Khaldun", Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Political
Thought (Oxford, Blackwell's); Hungarian translation, Budapest, Kossuth,
1995.
1988
"The Middle East and Islam: A Ventriloqual Terrorism", Third World Affairs 1987 (London, Third
World Foundation), pp.23-34.
"Islamic Legal Theory and the
Appropriation of Reality" in Islamic
Law: Historical and Social Contexts , ed. A. Al-Azmeh, London, Routledge,
pp.250-265. Turkish translation as "Islam Hukuk Kavrami ve Gercekligin
özgülestirilmesi", in Sosyal ve
Tarihi Baglami Icinde Islam Hukuku, ed. Aziz El-Azme, translated by Fethi
Gedikli, Istanbul, Iz Yayincilik, 1992, pp.317-336.
"Islamism and Arab Nationalism", Review of Middle East Studies 4, pp.33-51.
Reprinted in my Islams and Modernities .
Turkish translation as "Arap Milliyetiligi ve Islamcilik" in Toplum ve Bilim, (Istanbul), 29/30
(1985), pp 29-43.
"Orthodoxy and Hanbalite Fideism",
Arabica 35, pp.253-266
1990
"Utopia in Islamic Political Thought", History of Political Thought 11, pp.9-20. Reprinted in my Islams and Modernities.
1991
"The Discourse of Cultural Authenticity: Islamist Revivalism and
Enlightenment Universalism", Eliot Deutsch (ed.), Culture and Modernity. East-West Philosophic Perspectives,
Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, pp.468-486. Reprinted in my Islams and Modernities.
"Islamist Revivalism and Western
Ideologies", History Workshop Journal 32, pp.44-53. Reprinted
in my Islams and Modernities.
1992
"Barbarians in Arab Eyes", Past
and Present 134, pp.3-18.
"Muslim Genealogies of Knowledge",
History of Religions no. 3, May,
pp.403-411.
"Mortal Enemies, Invisible Neighbours:
Northerners in Andalusian Eyes", The
Legacy of Muslim Spain, edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Leiden, E.J. Brill,
pp 259-272; Arabic translation in Al-Hadara
al-‘Arabiyya al-Islamiyya f¬'l-Andalus, Beirut, Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda
al-‘Arabiyya, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 398-410.
1993
"Muslim 'Culture' and the European Tribe", in my Islams and Modernities, pp.1-17.
"Islamism and the Arabs" in my Islams and Modernities, pp. 18-38.
1994
"Populism Contra Democracy: Recent Democratist Discourse in the Arab
World", G. Salamé (ed.): Democracy
without Democrats, London, I.B. Tauris, pp. 112-129; French translation in Démocraties sans démocrates, Paris,
Fayard, 1994, pp 233-252; Arabic translation in Dımuqratiyya min dun dimuqratiyin, Beirut, Markaz Dirasat
al-Wahda al-‘Arabiyya, 1995, pp 207-228; German translation in my Die Islamisierung des Islam, pp
145-175; Persian translation in Goftegu, 14 , 1375 [1997], pp. 85-107.
"Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of
the Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in a Muslim Tradition", Religion and Practical Reason. New Essays in
the Comparative Philosophy of Religions, ed. Frank Reynolds and David
Tracey, Albany, State University of New York Press (Chicago Studies in the
Philosophy of Religions), pp 163-212.
1995
"Rhetoric for the Senses: A Consideration of Muslim Paradise
Narratives", Journal of Arabic
Literature 26, no. 3, pp 215-231; French translation in La Virilité en Islam, eds. by Fethi Benslama and Nadia Tazi, Paris
1998, pp. 75-90.
"Nationalism and the Arabs", Arab Studies Quarterly 17, no. 1-2, pp.
1-18; reprinted in Arab Nation, Arab
Nationalism: The Antonius Lectures,
ed. D. Hopwood, London, Macmillan, 2000, pp. 63-78. French translation as “Les
Arabes, la nation, et le nationalisme”, Revue
d’Etudes Palestiniennes, n.s., no. 3 (Spring, 1995), pp. 81-93.
1996
"Culturalism, Grand Narrative of Capitalism Exultant", in my Islams and Modernities (second edition),
pp 17-40. Reprinted in Cross-Cultural
Conversation, ed. Anindita Niyogi Balslev, Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1996
(American Academy for Religion, Cultural Criticism Series, no. 5), pp. 77-100.
"Muslim Modernism and the Canonical
Text”, in my Islams and Modernities,
2nd. ed., pp. 101-127; reprinted in Islam
and the Challenge of Modernity: Historical and Contemporary Contexts, ed.
Sharifa Shifa Al-Attas, Kuala Lumpur, International Institute of Islamic Thought
and Civilization, 1997, pp. 391-428.
1998
"Geschichte, Kultur und die Suche nach dem Organischen", Die Vielfalt der Kulturen: Erinnerung,
Geschichte, Identität 4, eds. J. Rüsen, M. Gottlob and M. Mittag
(Frankurt/M., Suhrkamp), pp. 74-114.
"Muslim History, Reflections on
Periodisation and Categorisation", The
Medieval History Journal 1/2, pp.195-231.
"Afterword" to Mushirul Hasan
(ed.), Islam, Communities, and the
Nation. Muslims in South Asia and Beyond, New Delhi, Menohar Publishers,
pp. 491-506.
"The Muslim Canon from Late Antiquity
to the Age of Modernism: Typology, Utility, and History", in Canonization and Decanonization, ed. A. van
der Kooij and K. van den Toorn, Leiden, Brill (Studies in the History of Religions -- Numen Book Series, vol. LXXXII),
pp. 191-228
"Ibn Khaldun",
"al-Mas‘udi", and "Muqaddima", in Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, eds. Julie Scott Meisami and
Paul Starkey, London, Routledge.
1999
"Die Kohärenz des Westens: Eine nüchterne Romanze", in Westliches Geschichtsdenken , ed. J.
Rüsen, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999, pp. 106-116; English
version in J. Rüsen (ed.), Western Historical Thinking: An
Intercultural Debate, New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2002, pp. 58-64
"Genealogie, Typologie, und Organismus:
Islamische und andere. Geschichtsverläfe", in Kontinuität und Wandel: Geschichtsbildern in verschiedenen Fächern und
Kulturen , eds. E. Schulz and W. Sonne, Zürich, Hochschul Verlag an der ETH
Zürich , pp.453-478
2001
“Civilisation, Culture, and the New Barbarians”, in International Sociology, 16/1, pp. 75-93; Arabic translation as
"Al-Hadara wa'th-Thaqafa wa'l-Barbariyya al-jadida", in Al-Thaqafa al-`Alamiyya, 113(2002), pp.
6-27
2001
"Civilization, Concept and History of", in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences,
Oxford, Pergamon Press, pp. 1903-1909
2001
"Islamic Fundamentalism", in International
Encyclopedia of the Social and
Behavioral Sciences, Oxford, Pergamon Press, pp. 7931-34
2003
"Postmodern Obscurantism and 'The Muslim Question'", in Leo Panitch
and Colin Leys (eds.), Fighting
Identities: Race, Religion and Ethno-Nationalism (The Socialist Register, 2003), New York and London, Monthly Review
Press and the Merlin Press, pp. 28-50. Republished online in Journal for the Study of Religions and
Ideologies, 5(2003), pp. 21-47.
2004
"Une question postmoderne ?", in Nadia Tazi (ed.), Les mots du monde: l'identité, Paris, La
Découverte, pp. 11-24
2004
"Islam and the History of Civilisations", in Tidskrift för Mellanöststudier, no. 2, pp. 61-87
2004
“Monotheistic Kingship”, in Monotheistic Kingship, ed. J. Bak and A.
Al-Azmeh, pp. 9-29
2004
“God’s Chronography and Dissipative Time: Vaticinium ex eventu in Classical and
Medieval Muslim Apocalyptic Traditions”, in Medieval History Journal,
7/2, pp. 199-225
1.
In European languages:
“Obituary: Maxime Rodinson”, Iran Bulletin
and Middle East Forum, series II, no. 2, winter 2004-2005, p. 37
"Muslime und Supermuslime", Basler Zeitung -- Magazin 1, March 1997.
"Images-miroirs de
l'orientalisme", Qantara 13,
November-December 1994, pp 37-38.
"Speaking Volumes", The Times Higher Education Supplement,
24.12.1993.
"Rushdie, le traitre", Pour Rushdie, Paris, La Decouverte,
1993, pp.33-35 (English version as "Rushdie, the Traitor", For Rushdie, New York, W. Braziller,
1994, pp. 24-28).
"Poisoned Utopia", The Guardian, 17/2/1989 (reprinted in The Bedside Guardian, 1989 and in The Rushdie File, ed. L. Appinagnesi and
S. Maitland, London 1990).
"The Satanic Flame", New Statesman, 20.1.1989 (reprinted in The Rushdie File).
2.
In Arabic
"Constantine Zurayk (1909-2000) ",
in Al-`Arabi, 507 (February, 2001),
pp. 52-57
"Journey to Sweden ", Al-Nahar -- al-Mulhaq, 30.1.1999, pp.
10-12
"On the Etiquette of Dialogue between
the Shaikh and the Doctor", Al-Nahar
-- al-Mulhaq, 20.2.1999, pp. 12-13
"‘Uthman's Tunic and Mu‘awiya's
Hair", Al-Naqid 64 (1993),
pp.12-16.
"The Symphony of Pleasures: Sensual Pleasure
in Paradise", Al-Naqid 61
(1993), pp. 26-29.
"On the End of Arab Nationalism", Al-Quds al-`Araiı, 17.1.1993.
"Why Renan?", Al-Hayat, 19.12.1992 -- reprinted in Religion and Society in the Contemporary Arab World
"Disengaging Arab Nationalism from
Islamism", in Al-Naqid 33
(1991), pp.19-21 (reprinted in The Return
of Colonialism, London, Riyad El-Rayyes Books, 1991, pp.221-229).
"The Arabs and Democracy", Al-Naqid 4 (1991), pp.6-11-- reprinted
in Al-Dimuqratiya 25.7.1991.
"Leaves from an Indian Diary", Zawaya, 3 (1990), pp.48-50.
"On the Cultural Expansion of
Islamism", in Al-Naqid 9 (1989),
pp.9-11 (translated as "Les Versets Sataniques de Salman Rushdie: Version
nouvelle de la tunique d'Osman", in Sou'al,
9-10 (1989), pp.159-169.
Various
published interviews and discussions, such as an interview with Anwâl (Rabat) on 23, 24, 25 and 27 March
1992, Al-Manabir (Beirut) 63 (August,
1991), pp.23-30, Al-Katiba 3 (March,
1994), pp. 4-9 and 11-12 (October-November, 1994), pp. 18-24, Al-Ahram, 21.3.1994, p.10, Afkar (Amman), 123 (February, 1996), pp.
116-124, Die Zeit, 16.5.1997, Iran Bulletin Spring-Summer, 1997, pp.
17-27 and Summer 1998, pp. 15-18, The
Indian Express 29.11.1997, as-Safir, 26.1.1998. A round-table
discussion of my Secularism in Modern
Arab Life and Thought was published in Al-Mustaqbal
al-‘Arabi, 171 (May, 1993), pp.122-147; it is reprinted in my Religion and Society in the Contemporary
Arab World.
Juvenalia
(a book, translations, and articles) published in 1969, 1970, and 1971.
"Imperial
Œcumenism and Hegemonic Civilisation: Reflections on Islam and translatio imperii", in A. Rieber
and A. Al-Azmeh (eds.), Empire,
Globalisation and Hegemony
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of Saleh Said Agha, The Revolution which
toppled the Umayyads: Neither Arab not `Abbasid, Leiden, Brill, 2003, in Medieval History Journal
Obituary
of Maxime Rodinson, in the Middle East
Bulletin
2004
The Revolution which toppled the
Umayyads: Neither Arab not `Abbasid, Leiden, by Saleh Said Agha, Leiden,
Brill, 2003, in Medieval History Journal,
7/1, pp.
2002
The Armies of the Caliphs. Military and
Society in the Early Islamic State, by Hugh Kennedy, Cambridge University
Press, 2001, in Medieval History Journal,
5/1, pp. 175-177
2001
Islam and the Present: Challenges and
Horizons (in Arabic), by S. R. al-Buti and T. Tizini, Damascus, Dar
al-Fikr, 1998 (Al-Fikr al-`Arabi
al-Mu`asir, 116-117, pp. 56-62
2000
The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A
Generation’s Odyssey, by Fouad Ajami, New York, Pantheon Press, 1998 (Journal of Palestine Studies, XXIX.2,
pp. 108-9
1999
Islam in Britain, 1558-1685, by Nabil
Matar. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998 (Renaissance Studies, 13.4, pp. 498-501)
1998
The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of
Monotheism, by Regina M. Schwartz,
Chicago University Press, 1996 (Journal
of Religion, 78.4, pp. 614-616)
1998 A
History of Islamic Legal Theories. An Introduction to Sunni Usul al-fiqh by
Wael Hallaq, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997 (History of Religions, 38.1, pp. 79-80 )
1997
Arabic Historical Thought in the
Classical Period, by Tarif Khalidi, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press,1994 (History Workshop Journal,
42, Autumn, pp. 264-9.
1996
Majnün: The Madman in Medieval Muslim
Society, by Michael W. Dols, edited by Diane E. Immisch, Oxford, The
Clarendon Press (History Workshop Journal
41, pp 296-7)
1994
Culture and Intellectuals in Arab Society
(in Arabic), (Al-Mustaqbal al-Arabi, 180, pp.118-123).
1993
The Mental Taboo. Salman Rushdie and the
Truth within Literature (in Arabic) by Sadiq Al-Azm, (Al-Naqid 59, pp.55-57).
1992
Postmodernism & Islam. Predicament
and Promise by Akbar S. Ahmed, (British
Society for Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter 7, no.1, p. 23).
The History
of the Arab Peoples, by Albert Hourani, (History Workshop Journal 33, pp. 258-9).
Islam
in European Thought by Albert Hourani, (The Journal of Religion, 72/4, pp.621-2).
The
Despotic State in the Arab East (in Arabic), by Khaldun Al-Naqib, (Al-Mustaqbal al-‘Arabi, 159, pp.
153-156).
1991
Race and Slavery in the Middle East
by Bernard Lewis (International Affairs
67/4, p.826).
The Crisis
of Modern Islam by Bassam Tibi (Journal
of the American Oriental Society 111, p.202).
Arab
Intellectuals and the West: The Psychoanalysis of a Collective Neurosis (in Arabic) by
George Tarabishi,(Al-Naqid 66,
pp.66-67).
1989
In Search of Shadows: Conversations with
Egyptian Women by Wedad Zenie-Ziegler (The
Middle East, April, pp.41-42).
A
History of Islamic Societies by Ira M. Lapidus (The Times Higher Education Supplement, 17.2.1989).
1988
A Touch of Genius. The Life of T.E.
Lawrence, by M. Brown and J. Cave (The
Middle East, November, pp.33-34).
The
Averroeistic Corpus (in Arabic) by Jamal al-Din al-Alawi (Al-Hayat, 28.10.1988).
Isabelle:
The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt by Annette Kobak (The Middle East, September, p.45).
Asad,
The Sphinx of Damascus by Moshe Maoz (The
Middle East, July, p.51).
An
Introduction to Islam by Gerhard Endress (The Times Higher Education Supplement, 17.6.1988).
Images
of Women: The Portrayal of Women in Photography of the Middle East, 1860-1950
by Sarah Graham-Browne (The Middle East,
June, p.47).
Discovering
Islam by Akbar Ahmad (The Middle East,
April, pp.51-2).
Islam and
the State by P.J. Vatikiotis and Nostradamus
and the Millennium by J. Hogue (The
Middle East, February, pp.33-4).
Nationalist
Thought and the Colonial World by Partha Chatterjee, The Difficult Dialogue: Marxism and Nationalism by R. Munck, Syria and the French Mandate by Philip
S. Khoury, and The Making of the Modern
World by R.Robertson, (Journal of
Peasant Studies 15, pp. 410-414)
1987
The Ba'th and the Creation of Syria
by David Roberts (The Middle East,
August, p.39).
Christianity
and the World Religions by Hans Küng and others (Studia Islamica 66, pp.188-190).
1986
Ibn Khaldun and Islamic Ideology,
edited by Bruce B. Lawrence (Journal of
the Royal Asiatic Society 1, pp.101-2).
Nationalist
Thought and the Colonial World by Partha Chatterjee (Frontier (Calcutta) 19/8-10, pp.27-30).
The
Reign of the Ayatollahs. Iran and the Islamic Revolution by Shaul Bakhash,
in Frontier 29-3, pp.8-11.
Europe
and Islam by Hichem Djaït (Middle
East Journal, 40, p.763).
1985
Ibn Khaldun: The Birth of History and the
Past of the Third World by Yves Lacoste (Journal of Development Studies 21, pp.493-4).
L'Historiographie
mérinide: Ibn Khaldun et ses contemporains by Maya Shatzmiller (Middle East Journal 39, pp.165-6).
Sociology
of 'Developing Societies': the Middle East, edited by Talal Asad and Roger
Owen and Palestine and the Palestinians
by Pamela A. Smith (Journal of Peasant
Studies 13/1, pp.111-2).
Nomads
and the Outside World by A.M. Khazanov (Journal
of Peasant Studies 13/1, pp.132-3).
1983
Recommencements: on the Relation of
Philosophy and History (in Arabic) by Waddah Sharara (Dir®s®t ‘Arabiyya, 19/3, pp.142-9).
Recognizing
Islam by Michael Gilsenan (Frontier
15/26, pp.14-15).
1982
The Philosophical Roots of Structuralism
by Fuad Zakariya (Al-Safır
10/1/1982).
L'Histoire
et son discours. Essai sur la méthodologie d'Ibn Khaldoun by Ali Oumlil
(The Maghreb Review 7/5-6,
pp.129-130).
1981
Arab Nationalism and Islam (in
Arabic) (Al-Safir 28/6/81).
Rodinson
and the Prophet of Islam (in Arabic) by Hasan Qubaisi and Kinsfolk and Booty. The Bases of Politics in
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (in Arabic) by Waddah Sharara (Al-Karmil 3, pp.299-301).
1980
Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt,
1760-1840 by Peter Gran (The Middle
East May, p.82).
1979
Al-Mas'udi and his World by Ahmad
Shboul (The Middle East , October,
pp.118-120).
1978
In Search of Identity by Anwar Sadat
(The Spectator, 10.6.1978, p.20).