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The Politics of Conceptualizing Islam and the West

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2012

Cemil Aydin
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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , December 2004 , pp. 89 - 96
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2004

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2 See Boroujerdi, Mehrzad, Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1996Google Scholar); Gheissari, Ali, Iranian Intellectuals in the 20th Century (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1998Google Scholar); and Mirsepassi, Ali, Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000CrossRefGoogle Scholar).

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4 Lewis's book was criticized by several North American scholars of the Islamic world for the inaccuracies in its interpretative framework. See Juan Cole, “Review of Bernard Lewis's What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response,” Global Dialogue, January 27, 2003; available at http://www.juancole.com/essays/revlew.htm. See also Adam Sabra, “What Is Wrong with What Went Wrong?”Middle East Report Online (August 2003); available at http://www.merip.org/mero/interventions/sabra_interv.html.

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8 Ahmed Riza, a secular intellectual and a leading follower of Auguste Comte's positivist ideas, wrote one of the most comprehensive critiques of “the West” in 1922. See Riza, Ahmed, The Moral Bankruptcy of Western Policy Towards the East (Ankara, Turkey: Ministry of Culture and Tourism Publications, 1988Google Scholar).

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11 Daniel Pipes wrote in support of the decision in “Why Revoke Tariq Ramadan's U.S. Visa?”New York Sun, August 27, 2004, p. 9. Ramadan responded in “Scholar under Siege Defends his Record: Tariq Ramadan Responds Point by Point to the ‘Unfounded Allegations’ of a Critic,”Chicago Tribune, August 31,2004, p. C17.

12 “Letter Regarding Dr. Tariq Ramadan,” sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association of North America's Committee on Academic Freedom and the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Religion (August 30,2004), available at http://www.aarweb.org/about/announce/2004/ramadanoi.asp.