Occidentalism, conspiracy and taboo

Sadik Al-Azm (1934-2016) was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue. This fourth and final volume of his works in English includes his essays on: - Faith and Reason in Islam: Strategies in the Education of Muslim Communities - Sharia from a Secular Perspective - Crossing Borders: Orientalism, lslamism and Postmodernism - The Concept of Civil Society in Relation to the ‘Arab Spring’ - Statement by 99 Syrian Intellectuals („Charta 99“) - Goethe Medal 2015 Acceptance Speech