Presents a rebuttal of the cultural reductionism of Max Weber and others who have tried to explain the politics and society of the Middle East by reference to some unchanging entity called ‘Islam, ‘ typically characterised as instinctively hostile to capitalism. This work looks at the facts, analysing economic texts with his customary common sense.
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Maxime Rodinson was a French Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist. Rodinson’s work combined sociological and Marxist theories, which, he said, helped him to understand ‘that the world of Islam was subject to the same laws and tendencies as the rest of the human race.’
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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 308 ● ISBN 9780863569678 ● Tamanho do arquivo 2.6 MB ● Editora Saqi Books ● Cidade London ● País GB ● Publicado 2007 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 9046123 ● Proteção contra cópia DRM social