1st Edition

Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East

By Martin Kramer Copyright 1996
308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

305 Pages
by Routledge

Over the past decade, the political ground beneath the Middle East has shifted. Arab nationalism the political orthodoxy for most of this century has lost its grip on the imagination and allegiance of a new generation. At the same time, Islam as an ideology has spread across the region, and "Islamists" bid to capture the center of politics. Most Western scholars and experts once hailed the... Read more
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Arabism and Friends1. Arab Nationalism: Mistaken Identity2. Arab Pen, English Purse: John Sabunji and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt3. Arabistik and Arabism: The Passions of Martin Hartmann4. The Sharifian Propaganda of Eugene Jung5. The Arab Nation of Shakib Arslan6. Ambition, Arabism, and George Antonius7. Prisoner of Love: Jean Genet and Palestine8. America's ArabistsPart II : Islamism and the West9. Islam is the Power of the Future10. Khomeini's Messengers in Mecca11. Syria's Alawis and Shi'ism12. Hizbullah: The Calculus of Jihad13. Sacrifice and Self-Martyrdom in Shi'ite Lebanon14. France Held Hostage15. Islam and the West (including Manhattan)16. Islam vs. DemocracyConclusionIndex

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