Justice Interrupted : The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (433 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. The Rise of A Constitutional Model of Justice, 1839- 1920 -- 1. Mustafa Ali: Ottoman Justice and Bureaucratic Reform -- 2. Tanyus Shahin of Mount Lebanon: Peasant Republic and Christian Rights -- 3. Ahmad Urabi and Nazem al- Islam Kermani: Constitutional Justice in Egypt and Iran -- II. Movements For Local and Collective Models of Justice, 1920- 1965 -- 4. Halide Edib, Turkey's Joan of Arc: The Fate of Liberalism after World War I -- 5. David Ben-Gurion and Musa Kazim in Palestine: Genocide and Justice for the Nation -- 6. Hasan al-Banna of Egypt: The Muslim Brotherhood's Pursuit of Islamic Justice -- 7. Comrade Fahd: The Mass Appeal of Communism in Iraq -- 8. Akram al-Hourani and the Baath Party in Syria: Bringing Peasants into Politics -- III. Struggles for Justice in the Absence of a Political Arena, Since 1965 -- 9. Abu Iyad: The Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Turn to Political Violence -- 10. Sayyid Qutb and Ali Shariati: The Idea of Islamic Revolution in Egypt and Iran -- 11. Wael Ghonim of Egypt: The Arab Spring and the Return of Universal Rights -- Chronology -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.
The Arab Spring uprising of 2011 is portrayed as a dawn of democracy in the region. But the revolutionaries were--and saw themselves as--heirs to a centuries-long struggle for just government and the rule of law. In Justice Interrupted we see the complex lineage of political idealism, reform, and violence that informs today's Middle East.
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Representative government and representation. Middle East-Politics and government-20th century. Middle East-Politics and governmentt-19th century.