Fethi Benslama is a psychoanalyst who, although a secular thinker,
identifies himself as a person of Muslim culture who rejects
ready-made explanations for Islamic fundamentalism. In that spirit,
Benslama demythifies both Islam and Western ideas of the religion by
addressing the psychoanalytic root causes of the Muslim world’s clash
with modernity and subsequent turn to fundamentalism. Tracing this
ideological strain to its origins, Benslama shows that contemporary
Islam consists of a fairly recent hybridization of Arab nationalism,
theocracy, and an attempt (both naïve and deadly) to ground science
in faith. Combining textual analysis and Lacanian and Freudian
psychoanalysis, he examines Islam’s foundation, providing fresh
readings of the book of Genesis, the Koran, The Arabian Nights, and
the work of medieval Islamic philosophers. Refreshingly, Benslama
writes without ideological bias and undoes the simplistic, Western
view of Islam while refusing to romanticize terrorism or Muslim
extremism. This is a penetrating work that reveals an alternate
history of the Islamic religion and opens new possibilities for its
future development.
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