Saba Mahmood's 2005 Politics of Piety is an excellent example of evaluation in action.
Mahmood's book is a study of women's participation in the Islamic revival across the Middle …

1 Comme c'est souvent le cas des ouvrages originaux et fondateurs, Desiring Arabs de
Joseph Massad, professeur en sciences politiques et en histoire intellectuelle arabe à la …

It was the late summer of my second year in gradu ate school, and my train was speeding
away from the urban moloch of Cairo toward Alexandria on the Mediterranean coast, cutting …

This paper argues that to understand the legitimacy of a culture we need to investigate its
relation to the archive, the site for the accumulation of records. Archive reason is a kind of …

The rise of political Islam has provoked considerable debate about the compatibility of
democracy, tolerance, and pluralism with the Islamist position. As The Challenge of Political …

Pp. 397-405," Judentum/Zionismus", examine arguments against Judaism and Zionism by
members of various Islamic schools of thought represented in the Muslim League. These are …

Indeed, it is not difficult to find examples of the laminated character of Islamist-nationalist
discourse in Egypt today, a country that remains one of the premiere cultural centers of the …

In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks
considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession …

Eric Walberg's POSTMODERN IMPERIALISM: Geopolitics and the Great Game is a riveting
and radically new analysis of the imperialist onslaught which first engulfed the world in …

Several years ago, I picked up a copy of the then recently published A Secular Age by the
Canadian “critical” philosopher Charles Taylor (2007). I had read some of Taylor's earlier …