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ajiss-2650	Abu-Rabi’, Ibrahim	Trends and Issues in Contemporary Arab Thought	1991.0	15	.pdf	application/pdf	7060	355	50	Any serious study of the impact of Western modernity on modern Arab society has to consider the following questions: What is the historical background, and what are the contents of Western modernity? As a diverse and complex “intellectual” or “epistemological” construct, Arab thought can be broken down into the following discourses: 1) renaissance discourse; 2) political discourse; 3) national discourse; 4) philosophical discourse; and 5 ) Islamic doctrinal Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi‘ Trends and Issues 159 discourse (Diyib 1988).	cache/ajiss-2650.pdf	txt/ajiss-2650.txt