New Dutch Publication of Tijani Boulaouali

ARABISCHE LENTE TUSSEN MEDIATISERING EN ISLAMISERING (2021)

De Arabische Lente vormt het kernthema van dit boek van Tijani Boulaouali. Twee essentiële factoren van de Arabische opstanden sinds december 2010 worden onder de loep genomen. Hoe wordt de revolutie gemediatiseerd enerzijds? En in hoeverre wordt deze geïslamiseerd anderzijds?

De Arabische Lente vormt het kernthema van dit werk. Er wordt een poging gedaan om de beeldvorming van de Arabische Lente in het Nederlandstalige mediadiscours aan te snijden. Twee essentiële factoren van de Arabische opstanden sinds december 2010 worden onder de loep genomen. Hoe wordt de revolutie gemediatiseerd enerzijds? En in hoeverre wordt deze geïslamiseerd anderzijds?
In eerste instantie wordt een blik geworpen op de mediatisering van de Arabische Lente, omdat de mediatieke factor een onmisbare rol speelde tijdens de Arabische opstanden, niet alleen plaatselijk, maar ook wereldwijd door hun gevolgen die verder gingen dan de Arabische geografie. Anderzijds wordt er aandacht besteed aan de islamisering, want de politieke islam was aanwezig gedurende alle fasen van de Arabische Lente. De religieuze factor is dan ook van zeer groot belang, al is dit zeker niet de enige factor.

MUSLIMS AND THE PHOBIA OF GLOBALIZATION: STUDIES IN ISSUES OF IDENTITY, EDUCATION, DEVELOPMENT AND MEDIA (2022)

Does globalization carry a certain “phobia” for man and the universe, or is this just an illusion that haunts the selves, thoughts and reality of many contemporary Muslims?
The chapters and paragraphs of this book, which I place today in the hands of the reader, aim to explain this problematic questioning from multiple perspectives and at different levels. I believe that the phenomenon of globalization is undoubtedly one of the contemporary issues that take a problematic nature due to the overlap of various educational, socio-cultural, political and economic factors in its crystallization.
What is remarkable is that, especially in a large part of contemporary Arab and Islamic thought, certain visions that repeat what their predecessors produced, whether in the West or in the Islamic world, are usually ruminated. The positions of Arab and Muslim thinkers and intellectuals are almost unanimous in rejecting the phenomenon of globalization, under the pretext of fearing the dominance of the Western cultural model at the expense of local and indigenous identities, including the Arab-Islamic identity.
Thus, she questions the issue of globalization without objectively distinguishing between its positives and negatives, between its advantages and disadvantages, and between what is human in common and what is narrow ideological. In this rejection, secular, Islamic and socialist currents meet, which often presents globalization as a pure American invention, through which the United States of America and its allies seek to mold the world according to the values ​​of (post-) American modernity that are opposed to what is religious and traditional, while globalization is a human product. It is shared by various cultures and religions throughout different periods of human history.

ISLAM BETWEEN THE DIALECTIC OF THE SELF AND THE OTHER: INTELLECTUAL REVIEWS OF ISLAM IN THE WEST (2022)

The reviews of this new book fall within the framework of a rational approach to the relationship between Islam and the West. In fact, it is not possible to comprehend this new version separated from my previous works (Muslims in the West, The Image of Islam, Islamophobia, Muslims and Globalization Phobia, Mutual Fear between Islam and the West), in which I worked on various issues of Islam and Muslims in the West.
These issues constitute theoretical and preliminary approaches to a broader and deeper project that is currently under implementation, research and editing. The new work includes six intellectual revisions, varying in time of writing as they were formulated during different periods in the last two decades. It also differs in terms of the issues it deals with, such as secularism, education, extremism, the Arab Spring, and others. Finally, the authors whose views were reviewed vary, including Muslim and non-Muslim, Western and Arab, old and young.

MUTUAL FEAR BETWEEN ISLAM AND THE WEST: AN CONCEPTUAL AND DECONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH (2021)

After more than two decades of intellectual and media interest in the duality of Islam and the West on various occasions and meetings, and through different writings and publications, today Tijani Boulaouali has the opportunity to formulate a set of ideas on an important issue, which is the phenomenon of Islamophobia. About this topic, a number of studies, research, articles and papers have been written in record time, but our main purpose is not to describe this issue and to make a general inventory of its manifestations and events. The books, articles and reports that the predecessors have written are sufficient.