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Synopsis
IIIT Books-In-Brief Series is a valuable collection of the Institute s key publications written in condensed form to give readers a core understanding of the main contents of the original. Mapping the Secular Mind critically examines issues of reason, rationality, and secular materialism, to explore how these mental perceptions, or ways of mapping the world, have affected human interaction and sociological development. It does this by comparing and contrasting the ideas of Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri (1938 2008), a leading Arab intellectual, and Zygmunt Bauman (1925), one of the world s foremost sociologists. In the last few decades, an emergent Western critique of modernity has inspired Muslim intellectuals to develop new ideas, images, terms and concepts that state their positions towards the tendencies of secular modernity, its transformations and consequences, and how it manipulates perceptions of reality. The secular mind had a grand plan, to establish an earthly paradise, a utopia of the here and now, a modern civilization governed by human reason, rationality, and the triumph of progress. Whilst ideals are one thing, the means to realize them is something else. Away from the hype, emancipating humanity from the shackles of God and religion has proved no easy matter.
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About the Author
Dr. Haggag Ali studied English and literature at Cairo University and started his postgraduate studies in literary theory in 2002. He received his Ph.D. from Cairo University in 2008 with a dissertation on The Cognitive Mapping of Modernity and Postmodernity, exploring the convergence of Jewish and Islamic critiques of modernity and postmodernity with a particular emphasis on the contributions of the Polish-born British sociologist Zygmunt Bauman (the author of Modernity and the Holocaust) and the Arab Egyptian intellectual Abdelwahab Elmessiri (the editor of the Arabic Encyclopedia of the Jews, Judaism and Zionism). Ali's research interests fall within the scope of literary theory and critical theories of modernity. He has published several articles and reviews in Arabic, including The Metaphorical Approach to Modernity in the Writings of Abdelwahab Elmessiri and Zygmunt Bauman, in: Abdelwahab Elmessiri in the Eyes of his Friends and Critics. Dar Al Fikr: Damascus (2007), Elmessiri and Western Modernity, in: Al Jazirah Cultural Magazine. 9/4/2007 G. Issue No 194, and Yahuda Bauer: Rethinking the Holocaust, A Review in: Weghat Nazar. Cairo: Sep. (2007). His current research project deals with The Spectre of Eric Voegelin in Zygmunt Bauman's and Abdelwahab Elmessiri's Critique of Modernity .
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