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- Emerson
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| | Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival:
The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East
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| | by Martin S. Kramer
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ZIN Product Number: 10434661
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 298 pages
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1560002727
Release Date: Jan 1, 2002
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
"Kramer's book tells the story of Arab nationalism and Islamism through the stories of representative people, some of whom are influential in those movements." (Parameters) Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
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 redemptive power of Arabism. Now they welcome the advent of "Islamism" as a new stage of self-awareness and liberation. Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival is a critical assessment of the contradictions of Arab nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism, and the misrepresentation of both in the West. The first part of the book argues that Arab nationalism - the so-called Arab awakening - bore within it the seeds of its own failure. Arabism as an idea drew upon foreign sources and resources. Even as Arabism claimed to liberate the Arabs from imperialism, it deepened intellectual dependence upon the West's own romanticism and radicalism. Ultimately, Arab nationalism became a force of oppression rather than liberation, and a mirror image of the imperialism it defied. Initially published separately, Kramer's essays together form the only chronological telling and the first fully documented postmortem of Arabism. The second part of the book examines the similar failings of Islamism, whose ideas are Islamic reworkings of Western ideological radicalism. Its effect has been to give new life to old rationales for oppression, authoritarianism, and sectarian division.
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Endorsement from Beirut
-- A reviewer, July 2, 1999
| |  | | | | Acknowledgments | | | Introduction | 1 | | Pt. I | Arabism and Friends | | | 1 | Arab Nationalism: Mistaken Identity | 19 | | 2 | Arab Pen, English Purse: John Sabunji and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | 53 | | 3 | Arabistik and Arabism: The Passions of Martin Hartmann | 63 | | 4 | The Sharifian Propaganda of Eugene Jung | 87 | | 59 | The Arab Nation of Shakib Arslan | 103 | | 6 | Ambition, Arabism, and George Antonius | 111 | | 79 | Prisoner of Love: Jean Genet and Palestine | 125 | | 8 | America's Arabists | 133 | | Pt. II | Islamism and the West | | | 9 | "Islam is the Power of the Future" | 141 | | 10 | Khomeini's Messengers in Mecca | 161 | | 11 | Syria's Alawis and Shi'ism | 189 | | 12 | Hizbullah: The Calculus of Jihad | 209 | | 13 | Sacrifice and "Self-Martyrdom" in Shi'ite Lebanon | 231 | | 14 | France Held Hostage | 245 | | 15 | Islam and the West (including Manhattan) | 255 | | 16 | Islam vs. Democracy | 265 | | Conclusion | 279 | | Index | 287 |
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Nationalism, Arab countries, History, Islam, 20th century, Contemporary Politics - Middle East, International Relations - General, Political Science, 20th century, History, Arab countries, Nationalism, Middle East, Islam
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