Khaldoun samman biography of mahatma
Islam and the Orientalist World-system - Khaldoun Samman ......
Khaldoun Samman
Khaldoun Samman took his undergraduate studies at George Washington University in Washington D.C. and received his PhD in Sociology from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
He joined the Macalester sociology department in 2002.
Khaldoun samman biography of mahatma
Samman teaches the department’s Social Theory course, Islam and the West, The Politics of Fear, Secularism and Its Discontents, as well as a range of classes on social problems and social inequalities.
Samman’s latest book, Clash of Modernities: The Islamist Challenge to Jewish, Turkish and Arab Nationalism was released in December 2010.
This book argues that to understand the Middle East we must also understand how the West produced a temporal narrative of world history in which westerners placed themselves on top and all others below them. In the attempt to reinterpret Middle Eastern history, this book shows how Arabs, Muslims, Turks, and Jews absorbed, revised, yet remained loyal to this Western vision.
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