Majid Tehranian (1937-2012) was the first Director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research and Professor of International Communication at the University of Hawaii. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard University, he was a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Club of Rome. His publications include more than 25 books and 100 articles.Daisaku Ikeda is the President of Soka Gakkai International, a Buddhist network with some twelve million members in over 190 countries throughout the world. He is the author of over 100 books on Buddhist themes, and received the United Nations Peace Award in 1983.

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• Part I: Secularization, Islam and the Predicament of IdentityIntroductionChapter 1: The Enlightenment Project and Secularization in the WestChapter 2: Modernity and Islam in Egypt: The Struggle for Self-Representation and the Problems of OrientationChapter 3: Islam and Modernity: The Predicament of IdentityChapter 4: Narrating Islam, Modernity and Muslim IdentityChapter 5: Egyptian Writing and the Search for AuthenticityPart II: States of Cultural Contestation and the Struggle for Self-DefinitionChapter 6: Narrating the Nation: The Rise of Egyptian (Territorial) NationalismChapter 7: The Rise of Easternism and National Re-definitionChapter 8: ConclusionsPart III: States of AmbivalenceChapter 9: IntroductionChapter 10: From Sacred to Secular: Time and Space, Alienation and ExileChapter 11: The Transformation of Social FormationsChapter 12: The Plight of Women: Vulnerable, Powerless and SubjugatedChapter 13: Ambivalent Identities and the SacredChapter 14: Conclusion

Majid Tehranian (1937-2012) was the first Director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research and Professor of International Communication at the University of Hawaii. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard University, he was a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Club of Rome. His publications include more than 25 books and 100 articles.Daisaku Ikeda is the President of Soka Gakkai International, a Buddhist network with some twelve million members in over 190 countries throughout the world. He is the author of over 100 books on Buddhist themes, and received the United Nations Peace Award in 1983.

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• Part I: Secularization, Islam and the Predicament of IdentityIntroductionChapter 1: The Enlightenment Project and Secularization in the WestChapter 2: Modernity and Islam in Egypt: The Struggle for Self-Representation and the Problems of OrientationChapter 3: Islam and Modernity: The Predicament of IdentityChapter 4: Narrating Islam, Modernity and Muslim IdentityChapter 5: Egyptian Writing and the Search for AuthenticityPart II: States of Cultural Contestation and the Struggle for Self-DefinitionChapter 6: Narrating the Nation: The Rise of Egyptian (Territorial) NationalismChapter 7: The Rise of Easternism and National Re-definitionChapter 8: ConclusionsPart III: States of AmbivalenceChapter 9: IntroductionChapter 10: From Sacred to Secular: Time and Space, Alienation and ExileChapter 11: The Transformation of Social FormationsChapter 12: The Plight of Women: Vulnerable, Powerless and SubjugatedChapter 13: Ambivalent Identities and the SacredChapter 14: Conclusion

Majid Tehranian (1937-2012) was the first Director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research and Professor of International Communication at the University of Hawaii. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard University, he was a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Club of Rome. His publications include more than 25 books and 100 articles.Daisaku Ikeda is the President of Soka Gakkai International, a Buddhist network with some twelve million members in over 190 countries throughout the world. He is the author of over 100 books on Buddhist themes, and received the United Nations Peace Award in 1983.

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• Part I: Secularization, Islam and the Predicament of IdentityIntroductionChapter 1: The Enlightenment Project and Secularization in the WestChapter 2: Modernity and Islam in Egypt: The Struggle for Self-Representation and the Problems of OrientationChapter 3: Islam and Modernity: The Predicament of IdentityChapter 4: Narrating Islam, Modernity and Muslim IdentityChapter 5: Egyptian Writing and the Search for AuthenticityPart II: States of Cultural Contestation and the Struggle for Self-DefinitionChapter 6: Narrating the Nation: The Rise of Egyptian (Territorial) NationalismChapter 7: The Rise of Easternism and National Re-definitionChapter 8: ConclusionsPart III: States of AmbivalenceChapter 9: IntroductionChapter 10: From Sacred to Secular: Time and Space, Alienation and ExileChapter 11: The Transformation of Social FormationsChapter 12: The Plight of Women: Vulnerable, Powerless and SubjugatedChapter 13: Ambivalent Identities and the SacredChapter 14: Conclusion