DEBATES ON CIVILIZATION IN THE MUSLIM

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Author: LUTFI SUNAR
Publisher: OUP India
ISBN-13: 9780199466887
Publishing year: 2017-01-03 05:30:00.000
No of pages: 444
Weight: 600g
Language: English
Book binding: Hardback

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Since its birth as a concept, civilization has been defined by an encounter with the ‘other’. Barbarism, the ever-ready counter concept, has provided civilization with its raison d'être—that of exerting violence upon other societies to ‘civilize’ them. Enlightenment thinkers defined civilization as an opponent of nature, while science and technology, tools with which nature was to be conquered, became one of the basic indicators of development.