Narratives of Arab Secularism: Politics, Feminism and Religion - Paperback

by Youssef M. Choueiri (Author)

This book offers a new interpretation of the rich narratives of Arab secularism, contending that secularism as a set of ideas and a social movement is destined to loom large on the political and legal horizon of most Arab states.

Author Biography

Youssef M. Choueiri is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. He served as Reader (Associate Professor) in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter and the University of Manchester before joining the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies as Professor of History in 2015. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Arab History and the Nation-State, A Companion to the History of the Middle East and Islamic Fundamentalism . His research interests span a cluster of inter-related Middle Eastern, Arab and Islamic topics: the emergence and development of modern Arab historiography, the notion of the nation-state, Arab nationalism, Middle Eastern modernity and Islamism.