Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled AgeUniversity of California Press, 2005 M11 16 - 328 páginas 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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... frustration , and stifled hopes that I examined a decade ago . But pre- cisely how and why and under what circumstances these long - exist- ing forces are now being channeled into terrorist violence is still scarcely understood . One ...
... frustration , and stifled hopes that I examined a decade ago . But pre- cisely how and why and under what circumstances these long - exist- ing forces are now being channeled into terrorist violence is still scarcely understood . One ...
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... frustrating struggle among contemporary Middle Easterners to infuse meaning , value , and moral purpose into the politics of their region . In so doing , it inevitably focuses on the uneasy coexistence between secular and religious ...
... frustrating struggle among contemporary Middle Easterners to infuse meaning , value , and moral purpose into the politics of their region . In so doing , it inevitably focuses on the uneasy coexistence between secular and religious ...
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... frustration of the twentieth century . It is likewise a struggle driven by desire , the intensely felt need to seize what ought to be theirs . The parallels between Eliot's fashionable despair and the many- layered frustrations of the ...
... frustration of the twentieth century . It is likewise a struggle driven by desire , the intensely felt need to seize what ought to be theirs . The parallels between Eliot's fashionable despair and the many- layered frustrations of the ...
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... frustrated and blocked , but they are not extin- guished . The struggle ( however defined , and whatever its goals ) seems endless but not pointless . In the pages that follow , in fact , we will see many solid achievements and a fair ...
... frustrated and blocked , but they are not extin- guished . The struggle ( however defined , and whatever its goals ) seems endless but not pointless . In the pages that follow , in fact , we will see many solid achievements and a fair ...
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Contenido
Hard Realities Population Growth and Economic Stagnation | 1 |
From Imperialism to the New World Order The Middle East in Search of a Future | 23 |
The Strange Career of PanArabism | 60 |
The Shaping of Foreign Policy The Myth of the Middle East Madman | 83 |
Military Dictatorship and Political Tradition in the Middle East | 113 |
Profane and Sacred Politics The Ends of Power in the Middle East | 131 |
Islam as a Political System | 148 |
Jihad and the Politics of Salvation | 174 |
Women in Public Life Islamic Perspectives Middle Eastern Realities | 204 |
Islam and Human Rights | 227 |
Towards a ConclusionBetween Memory and Desire | 261 |
Notes | 273 |
A Bibliographic Note | 289 |
Index | 293 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age R. Stephen Humphreys Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age R. Stephen Humphreys Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age R. Stephen Humphreys Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
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Página xxix - APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
Página 273 - Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988); Deborah Sawyer, Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries (London: Routledge, 1996).
Página xxx - Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour...
Página 277 - Philip Khoury, Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945 (Princeton...
Página 136 - ... quality of the fine material of their clothes and in the size and equal * No other groups could use these insignia of rank and status. That they never carried weapons was a further sign of the nature of their authority, though by this time that fact was of less practical importance than it had been. elegance of the luxurious house to which we were being guided. It was all an enchantment, a desert, an oasis, a holy town, an age-old tradition. The fullness of sanctity and a ritualized sense of...
Página 277 - Malcolm H. Kerr, The Arab Cold War: Gamal Abd al-Nasir and His Rivals, 1958-1970, 3rd ed.
Página 109 - Truman said that the expert is someone who doesn't want to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert.
Página 282 - The venture of Islam: Conscience and history in world civilization, 3 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Página 136 - We kiss their hands now," he said, "but just wait till tomorrow." He was a Nasserist, a word that to the British and sherifian authorities meant subversion, communism, and an enemy to be bitterly resisted. A member of the first generation of peasants to be educated, he belonged to a cultural club in which most of the young men were sympathizers with the cause of the Egyptian president, then at the height of his power. That cause was identified as that of all Arabs against imperialism and the control...