The state, the renaissance, and modernity

This book examines the issues after the nation-state model, through a new reading of the traditional Arab nationalist theory, and by presenting a different perspective on the state and citizenship, in order to formulate a complex concept of identity. From globalization and the prospects of Arab national integration within it, this book continues to explore issues of modernity and beyond, addressing modernity and rationality, the end of the intellectual, the aesthetics of modernity, the logic of postmodernism, and European post-centrality. In the end, the book examines issues of renaissance and modernity, addressing governance and authority in contemporary Islamic discourse, Islamic reform and secularism, the revival of enlightenment, and the pursuit of a new secularism. Thus, researcher and critic Muhammad Jamal Barout adds to his well-known contributions this important contribution to the critical review of concepts in contemporary Arab thought.