Arab intellectual concepts for cultural sociology

This paper presents new cultural concepts drawn from the Arab world. The terms ‘other underdevelopment’ and ‘cultural symbols’ are new as terms as well as cultural concepts in today’s social sciences. As such, they are in favour of the development of cultural sociology with a ‘strong programme’. This paper argues that the building of a cultural theory based on a different epistemology and on new cultural concepts is a legitimate possibility. This potential contribution to the growing cultural sociology has been done independently before the official meaning of cultural sociology was generally adopted.