Arab Cultural Heritage, Selections

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This book has an academic, school-based aim, as it has become clear to us on several occasions that students need a comprehensive book that covers, without going into too much detail, the Arab cultural heritage and makes it systematically accessible, enabling students to become familiar with it, study it, and engage with it.

Arab cultural heritage, as presented in this anthology, is vast, multifaceted, rich in discussions, and brimming with opinions and knowledge. Conflict within cultures is essential; otherwise, nations would stagnate and die. Arab cultural heritage, however, was not static. Its contributors came from diverse backgrounds, united by Arab and Islamic culture, resulting in a varied and tolerant output, especially when their efforts were vibrant and dynamic.

This selection comes to confirm this pluralism and diversity and to refute the accusations that stem from a singular reading that conforms to an opinion that prevailed for a long period within the central discourse in the colonial West.

The accusations against this heritage did not only come from traditional opponents or advocates of extremism wherever they were found, but also from narrow minds that are entrenched within narrow concepts of a single opinion that claims legitimacy and validity at the expense of other opinions.