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Between Memory and Desire : The Middle East in a Troubled Age.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (322 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520932586
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Between Memory and DesireDDC classification:
  • 956.04
LOC classification:
  • DS63.1 -- .H856 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- HARD REALITIES -- FROM IMPERIALISM TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER -- THE STRANGE CAREER OF PAN- ARABISM -- THE SHAPING OF FOREIGN POLICY -- MILITARY DICTATORSHIP AND POLITICAL TRADITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- PROFANE AND SACRED POLITICS -- ISLAM AS A POLITICAL SYSTEM -- JIHAD AND THE POLITICS OF SALVATION -- WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE -- ISLAM AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- TOWARD A CONCLUSIONÛ BETWEEN MEMORY AND DESIRE -- NOTES -- A BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE -- INDEX.
Summary: Middle Easterners today struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central to this struggle, and almost every issue involves fierce, sometimes violent debates over the role of religion in public life. In this post-9/11 updated edition R. Stephen Humphreys presents a thoughtful analysis of Islam's place in today's Middle East and integrates the medieval and modern history of the region to show how the sacred and secular are tightly interwoven in its political and intellectual life.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- HARD REALITIES -- FROM IMPERIALISM TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER -- THE STRANGE CAREER OF PAN- ARABISM -- THE SHAPING OF FOREIGN POLICY -- MILITARY DICTATORSHIP AND POLITICAL TRADITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- PROFANE AND SACRED POLITICS -- ISLAM AS A POLITICAL SYSTEM -- JIHAD AND THE POLITICS OF SALVATION -- WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE -- ISLAM AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- TOWARD A CONCLUSIONÛ BETWEEN MEMORY AND DESIRE -- NOTES -- A BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE -- INDEX.

Middle Easterners today struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central to this struggle, and almost every issue involves fierce, sometimes violent debates over the role of religion in public life. In this post-9/11 updated edition R. Stephen Humphreys presents a thoughtful analysis of Islam's place in today's Middle East and integrates the medieval and modern history of the region to show how the sacred and secular are tightly interwoven in its political and intellectual life.

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