Islams and Modernities

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| name = Islams and Modernities

| image = Islams and Modernities by Aziz Al Azmeh.jpg

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| author = Aziz al-Azmeh

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| language = English

| subject = Politics, Religion

| genre = Nonfiction

| media_type = Print (Hardcover, Paperback)

| pages = 206 pp

| isbn = 9780860916260

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| publisher = Verso Books

| pub_date = 1993 (1st edition)

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Islams and Modernities is a book by Aziz Al-Azmeh, a professor at Central European University. It was first released in 1993. The book explores the history of interaction between Islam and Europe, analyzing myths about those interactions created by Orientalist and Islamist viewpoints.{{Citation |last=Al-Azmeh |first=Aziz |title=Islams and Modernities |date=October 17, 1996 |edition=2nd |publisher=Verso Books |language=en |isbn=9781859841068 |author-link=Aziz al-Azmeh}} A new version was released on August 7, 2009, also examining "the discourse surrounding Islamism and irrationalism after 9/11."

Reception

The Guardian wrote that "Islams and Modernities raises urgent questions that are central to the concerns of the contemporary world.”{{cite web |title=Islams and Modernities by Aziz Al-Azmeh |url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/232558/islams-and-modernities-by-aziz-al-azmeh/9781844673858/ |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=Penguin Random House}} New Statesman wrote that “Aziz Al-Azmeh is perhaps the most original thinker on these themes in Britain today."

==Versions==

First edition: {{Citation |last=Al-Azmeh |first=Aziz |author-link=Aziz al-Azmeh |title=Islams and Modernities |publisher=Verso Books |year=1993 |language=en |isbn=9780860916260}}
Second edition: {{Citation |last=Al-Azmeh |first=Aziz |author-link=Aziz al-Azmeh |title=Islams and Modernities |publisher=Verso Books |date=October 17, 1996 |language=en |isbn=9781859841068}}
2009 edition: {{Citation

| last =Al-Azmeh

| first =Aziz

| author-link =Aziz al-Azmeh

| title =Islams and Modernities

| publisher =Verso Books

| date =August 7, 2009

| language =en

| isbn = 9781844673858 }} (includes a preface and two additional chapters)