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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Cultural Malaise and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century Western, Postcolonial, and Arab Debates | |
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| The First Modern Arab Cultural Renaissance, or Nahda: from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Mid-Twentieth Century | |
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| Critique After the 1967 Defeat | |
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| The Existential Dramatization of Critique the Day After the Defeat: Saadallah Wannous's Theatrical Oeuvre | |
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| Humanistic Nationalism and Critical Reason | |
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| The Critique of Religious-Metaphysical Thought | |
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| The Critique of Ideology and Historicization | |
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| Gendering Critique | |
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| The Radicalization of Critique and the Call for Democracy: Reclaiming the Individual's Critical Faculties | |
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| Marxist, Epistemological, and Psychological Readings of Major Conferences on Cultural Decline, Renewal, and Authenticity | |
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| The Cairo Conference of 1971: "Authenticity and Renewal in Contemporary Arab Culture" | |
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| The Kuwait Conference of 1974: "The Crisis of Civilizational Development in the Arab Homeland" | |
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| The Cairo Conference of 1984: "Heritage and the Challenges of the Age in the Arab Homeland: Authenticity and Contemporaneity" | |
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| Critique in These Conferences: The Fixation on Tradition and the Intellectualization of the Malaise | |
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| Critique in Islamic Theology | |
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| From the Unthought and the Unthinkable to the Thinkable | |
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| The Historicity of Revelation and the Struggle for Thought in the Time of Anathema | |
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| Feminist Historicization of Religious Traditions | |
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| An Islamic Theology of Liberation: The "Islamic Left" of Hassan Hanafi | |
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| A Christian Arab Theology of Liberation | |
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| On the Potential for Critique in Traditional Islam: Talal Asad's Analysis of the Public Criticism by Ulemas in Saudi Arabia | |
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| Islamic Critique and the Cultural Malaise | |
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| Secular Critique | |
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| Critique of the Exclusive Monopoly over "True" Islam | |
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| The Importance of Keeping the Debate on the Human Level | |
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| Critique of the Essentialist and Romantic Conception of Identity | |
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| Critique of the Islamicization of Knowledge and the Quest for an Indigenous Social Science | |
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| Critique of the Conciliatory Pattern of Thinking | |
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| Secularism, Democracy, and Cultural Critique | |
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| Recentering the Historical, the Human, and the Partial: The Secular Call for Democracy and Human Rights | |
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| Breaking the Postcolonial Solitude: Arab Motifs in Comparative Perspective | |
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| The Western Debates | |
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| The Non-Western Postcolonial Debates | |
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| Common Leitmotivs and Arab Specificities | |
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| Shifting Priorities | |
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| Conclusion: The New Nahda Impulses, Reclaiming the Right to Freedom and Life | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |