Nationalism and Liberal Thought in the Arab East: Ideology and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780415554107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 208 str.

Christoph Schumann

Opis

This book is concerned with the relationship between nationalism and liberal thought in the Arab world during the first half of the twentieth century. It examines this formative period through reformist Islam, Arab secularism and Arab literature and shows that liberal ideas were not entirely eclipsed by nationalism with the outbreak of the Second World War.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Nationalism and Liberal Thought  1. The Role of Traditional Religious Scholars in Iraqi Politics from the Young Turk period until 1920: The Example of Yusuf al-Suwaydi Thomas Eich  2. Who is "liberal" in 1930s Iraq? Education as a Contested Terrain in a Nascent Public Sphere Peter Wien  3. Liberal Champions of Pan-Arabism: Syria’s Second Íizb al-Sha'b Fred H. Lawson  4. Nation, State, and Democracy in the Writings of Zaki al-Arsuzi Dalal Arsuzi-Elamir  5. Nationalism as a Cause: Arab Nationalism in the Writings of Ghassan Kanafani Orit Bashkin  Part 2: Arab Intellectuals and Liberal Thought  6. Modernity, Romanticism, and Religion: Contradictions in the Writings of Farah Antun Alexander Flores  7. Progress and Liberal Thought in al-Hil'al, al-Man'ar, and al-Muqta'aaf before World War I Thomas Philipp  8. Liberal Democracy versus Fascist Totalitarianism in Egyptian Intellectual Discourse: The Case of Salama Musa and 'al-Majalla al-JadÐda' Israel Gershoni  9. The "Failure" of Radical Nationalism and the "Silence" of Liberal Thought in the Arab World Christoph Schumann

O autorze

Christoph Schumann is Professor of Politics and Contemporary History of the Middle East at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His research focuses on political ideologies in the Middle East and Muslims in the West, and he has previously written on the topics of liberalism in the Mediterranean and radical nationalism in Syria and Lebanon.