Contemporary Arab Political Thought

Author : Anouar Abdel-Malek
Publisher : London : Zed Press ; Totowa, N.J. : U.S. distributor, Biblio Distribution Center
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Arab Political Thought written by Anouar Abdel-Malek and published by London : Zed Press ; Totowa, N.J. : U.S. distributor, Biblio Distribution Center. This book was released on 1983 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Georges Corm
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 1849048169
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arab Political Thought written by Georges Corm and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2020 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the many facets of Arab political thought from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Author : Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Arab Thought written by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2004 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.

Author : Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231144881
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Arab Thought written by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the second half of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between a search for totalizing doctrines--nationalist, Marxist, and religious--and radical critique. Arab thinkers were reacting to the disenchanting experience of postindependence Arab states, as well as to authoritarianism, intolerance, and failed development. They were also responding to successive defeats by Israel, humiliation, and injustice. The first book to take stock of these critical responses, this volume illuminates the relationship between cultural and political critique in the work of major Arab thinkers, and it connects Arab debates on cultural malaise, identity, and authenticity to the postcolonial issues of Latin America and Africa, revealing the shared struggles of different regions and various Arab concerns.

Author : Michaelle L. Browers
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815630999
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Civil Society in Arab Political Thought written by Michaelle L. Browers and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a significant and unique contribution to the emerging literature of comparative political thought. Michaelle L. Browers offers compelling evidence, with extensive analysis and references, that a rigorous debate is taking place in Arabic concerning the value of democracy and civil society. Exploring the globalization of ideas of democracy and civil society, Browers addresses the question of what occurs when concepts cross the boundaries of cultures or languages. She analyzes the historical concept of democracy in Arab and Islamic political thought, the transformations that have occurred over the past several decades resulting from Arab forays into an international discussion of civil society and what these transformations tell us about the status of ideological and conceptual debates in the region. The book’s value, however, lies in its main premise: despite the dearth of actual democratic practices in the Arab world, intellectual elites of the region have vigorously debated reform concepts for decades. Browers emphasizes that current conflicts involving the Middle East are less about Islam against the west and its secular allies in the region and more about diverse sectors of Arab society grappling with how to reform overreaching and unjust states. Browers shows that the seeds of democratic reform in the region were well planted prior to the war on Iraq and the Greater Middle East Initiative.

Author : Farah W. Kawtharani
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030280578
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Thought in Contemporary Shi‘a Islam written by Farah W. Kawtharani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an intellectual history of one of the leading Shi’i thinkers and religious leaders of the 20th-century in Lebanon, Shaykh Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din. The author examines his role as the foremost figure of Shi’i intellectual life, a key associate of Musa al-Sadr, and president of the Islamic Shi‘i Supreme Council of Lebanon, having maintained the independence of this institution until his death from the domination of Shi‘i political parties. The core of the book consists of three interrelated main themes that constitute the major threads of Shams al-Din’s intellectual legacy: a discussion of Islamic government involving a critique of Khomeini’s theory of wilāyat al-faqīh, the role of Islam within civil government, and the necessity for political integration of the Shi‘a in their Arab nation-states to protect them from policies that raise doubts over their political allegiance to their respective countries. The project will appeal to scholars, students, academics, and researchers in Middle Eastern politics and history.

Author : Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745328898
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Arab Reader on Political Islam written by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Islamism is a complex notion, encompassing a constellation of social, political, religious and ideological ideas that have evolved over the past two hundred years. These ideas have dramatically shaped modern and contemporary Arab societies, but they are little understood in the West. The Contemporary Arab Reader on Political Islam corrects this at a stroke. It brings together the writings of highly influential figures in the field of Islamism in the contemporary Arab world, many of whose writings have never been available before in English. Addressing the key issues such as Shari'ah, human rights, civil society, secularism, globalisation and ummah, and the impact of the West on the modern Arab world, this is the perfect starting point for students and academics looking to understand Political Islam in contemporary Arab and Muslim societies. The contributors include such important Islamist thinkers and activists as Abdullah Azzam, central to the spread of Islamism in Afghanistan, Sayyid Muhammad Hussain Fadlallah, a major Shiite figure in contemporary Lebanon and Ahmad Bin Yousuf, a political advisor to Akram Haniyya in Gaza.

Author : Gerhard Bowering
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691134847
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought written by Gerhard Bowering and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 2012, the year 1433 of the Muslim calendar, the Islamic population throughout the world was estimated at approximately a billion and a half, representing about one-fifth of humanity. In geographical terms, Islam occupies the center of the world, stretching like a big belt across the globe from east to west."--P. vii.

Author : Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Arab Thought written by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2004 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.

Author : Tarek El-Ariss
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823252353
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trials of Arab Modernity written by Tarek El-Ariss and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity—which treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovation—this study instead offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and contestations of modernity staged in works by authors such as Rifa’a al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Tayeb Salih, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamdi Abu Golayyel, and Ahmad Alaidy. In dialogue with affect theory, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis, the book reveals these trials to be a violent and ongoing confrontation with and within modernity. In pointed and witty prose, El-Ariss bridges the gap between Nahda (the so-called Arab project of Enlightenment) and postcolonial and postmodern fiction.