CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Aslan, Mustafa |
|---|---|
| Title | A Plague from the West: Jalal Al-e Ahmad's Gharbzadegi within the context of anti-Westernism in the Islamic World |
| Summary | The present study of intellectual history places Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s Gharbzadegi (Westoxication) within the context of anti-Westernism in the Islamic world. To establish the latter, this study traces the ideas of Muslim modernist thinkers of the nineteenth century and the Islamist thinkers of the twentieth century. It also offers a brief biographical account of Jalal Al-e Ahmad. The main hypothesis of this study is that Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s Gharbzadegi constructs a very unique critique of the West. Within the genealogical trail of anti-Westernism in the Islamic world, Gharbzadegi considerably diverges from the mainstream line of thought. For this matter, it is neither an Islamist nor a secular anti-colonialist manifesto. Rather, it harbors several different ideological commitments, defines the problem of Westoxication and proposes an extensive form of self-empowerment as a remedy. |
| Supervisor | Al-Bagdadi, Nadia |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/aslan_mustafa.pdf |
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