by Abdelwahab Meddeb · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020885355
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«Contre-prêches: Chroniques» is Abdelwahab Meddeb's essay on Islam and modernity, published by Seuil in paperback (503 pages, in French).
In these chronicles, Meddeb responds to discourses that reduce Islam to dogmatism and submission. He reclaims a tradition of rebellion and free inquiry within Muslim culture itself, and argues that critical reason can refute fundamentalist readings: Islam has already shown in its history the capacity to embrace democracy, freedom, and human creativity.
The work belongs to Seuil's «La couleur des idées» series and was published in 2006. The text is in French.
For readers interested in contemporary Islam, critical thought, and debates on religion, multiculturalism, and fundamentalism.
Abdelwahab Meddeb was a French-language writer and cultural critic, and a professor of comparative literature at the University of Paris X-Nanterre.
