Islam is a peaceful religion oxford union reaction türkçe 
Adib Moghaddam at his best Highly recommended Philosophy Initially I found this book to be very jargon heavy and impenetrable but as I kept at it it became easier to understand and it had some interesting insights It s still not exactly easy reading but I was originally quite exasperated with it and now am not as exasperated Philosophy
On the Arab Revolts and the Iranian Power and Resistance Today is the first comparative analysis of two central political events that have altered our world the Arab uprisings which started in Tunisia and the Iranian revolution in 1979 Adib Moghaddam demonstrates how contemporary forms of protest are changing our understanding about the way power and resistance function In a theoretical tour de force which is substantiated with a range of primary material he argues that acts of protest in Tehran to Cairo can be entirely linked to the same act in New York London Madrid and Athens Breaking through the east west north south divide Adib Moghaddam shows how the Arab revolts promise to shift the discourse away from the idea that Arabs and Muslims are peculiar that Middle Eastern Studies cannot be linked to political theory that the dynamics of rebellion there are fundamentally different from the politics of revolt here Adib Moghaddam argues that the dialectics of power and resistance are truly universal and that they are unfolding within a globalised political context that is increasingly interconnected In order to illuminate this argument theoretically the study is organised around conceptual terms that feed into forms of power and resistance such as revolution radicalism dissent knowledge neighbour and reform These terms and concepts are discussed and deconstructed via an empirical discussion of pivotal events beyond the non western world demonstrating that for a long time and without realising it we have been living in the end times of unitary categories such as west and east On the Arab Revolts and the Iranian Revolution Power and Resistance Today Suspensions Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought.,
Islam is a peaceful religion oxford union reaction türkçe
Arshin Adib Moghaddam is Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies at SOAS University of London and Fellow of Hughes Hall University of Cambridge
