The Arab Revolution Takes Back the Public Space
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In 1991, al-Sadiq al-Nayhum, a Libyan thinker exiled in Geneva, published a book of collected essays in Arabic with the provocative title Islam in Captivity: Who Stole the Mosque and Where Did Friday Disappear?2 The thesis of the book was not novel. Al-Nayhum posited that modernity had failed to take root in the Arab world because in large part it had grown out of Western history and developed in a Western cultural and epistemological context, which is incompatible with the culture and knowledge nurtured by Islam. Al-Nayhum, predictably, advocated a return to a pure, foundational Islam to rebuild the battered and confused Arab societies.
Date issued
2012-09Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of ArchitectureJournal
Critical Inquiry
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Citation
Rabbat, Nasser. “The Arab Revolution Takes Back the Public Space.” Critical Inquiry 39, no. 1 (September 2012): 198-208. © 2012 by The University of Chicago.
Version: Final published version
ISSN
00931896
15397858