1st Edition
Reimagining Arab Political Identity Justice, Women's Rights and the Arab State
By Salam Hawa
Copyright 2022
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book discusses the idea that Arab cultural and political identity has been suppressed by centuries of dominance by imperial outsiders and by religious and nationalist ideologies with the result that present day Arab societies are characterised by a crisis of identity where fundamentalism or chaos seem to be the only available choices. Tracing developments from pre-Islamic times through to... Read more
1. Introduction
2. History, Language, Identity of Pre-Islamic Arabia
3. Founding of Arab Collective Memory
4. Archiving of Arab Collective Memory
5. Arab Identity in Transition
6. Islamic Identity as Obligated Memory
7. Renegotiating the Social Contract
Biography
Salam Hawa is an Affiliate of the Arab Canadian Studies Research Group at the University of Ottawa
