Fouad Ajami

The Arab Predicament

Arab Political Thought and Practice Since 1967

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How have Arab political ideas and institutions evolved since the 1967 War? How have the Arabs contended with the external influences to which their wealth has exposed them? What are the implications of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism? Fouad Ajami seeks to answer these and related questions in his illuminating study of the constraints and possibilities facing the Arab world today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Updated
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780521438339
• ISBN-10: 0521438330
• Artikelnr.: 21635324

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. One's World As It Really Is: 1. The radical sensibility
2. The Ba'th party: a retrospective
3. The Islamic response: radical fundamentalism
4. Conservative fundamentalism
Part II. Egypt As a State: 5. The legacy reassessed
6. The Egyptian search
7. The ways of the Pharoah, the ways of others
8. The push of the desert, the pull of the Mediterranean
9. Egypt as a mirror, as a state
Part III. Fractured Tradition: The Claims of Authenticity, the Realities of Dependence: 10. The 'revolution' contained
11. The dominant order's brief triumph
12. The question of authenticity and collaboration
13. The ruler's, Islam of the ruled
14. The ways of the ancestors, the ways of the world.