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Political Ideology in the Arab World
Accommodation and Transformation

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  • Date Published: May 2009
  • availability: In stock
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521749343

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  • Arab nationalism and Islamism have been the two most potent ideological forces in the Arab region across the twentieth century. Over the last two decades, however, an accommodation of sorts has been developing between liberals, socialists and Islamists, to protest unpopular foreign and domestic policies, such as those aimed at cooperation with Israel or the war in Iraq. By examining the writings of Arab nationalist, socialist and Islamist intellectuals, and through numerous interviews with political participants from different persuasions, Michaelle Browers traces these developments from the 'Arab age of ideology', as it has been called, through an 'age of ideological transformation', demonstrating clearly how the recent flow of ideas from one group to another have their roots in the past. Political Ideology in the Arab World assesses the impact of ideological changes on Egypt's Kifaya! [Enough!] movement and Yemen's joint meeting parties.

    • The first book to offer a systematic and comprehensive account of the cross-fertilisation of political ideologies in the Arab world
    • Surveys the recent development of main oppositional ideologies in the Arab region
    • Based on numerous interviews with political participants from different persuasions
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    'Brower's study deserves praise for its engagement with religious and political thought discourses in both English and the original Arabic. The sheer number of Arabic language works consulted is impressive and lends added authenticity to the work.' Political Studies Review

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    • Date Published: May 2009
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521749343
    • length: 210 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 151 x 12 mm
    • weight: 0.35kg
    • availability: In stock
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction. Ideological thought and practice in the Arab region
    1. Retreat from secularism in Arab nationalist and socialist thought
    2. A more inclusive Islamism? The Wasatiyya trend
    3. Framing a cross-ideological alliance
    4. The Egyptian movement for change: intellectual antecedents and generational conflicts
    5. Yemen's joint meeting parties: origins and architects
    Conclusion. Ideological rapprochement, accommodation, transformation - and their limits.

  • Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses

    • Democratic Principles and Practices (Senior Seminar)
    • Democratization in the Middle East
    • Modern Political Thought
    • Political Economy of the Middle East
    • Politics and Economies in the Middle East
    • Politics of the Middle East
    • Poltics and Religion in the Middle East
    • The Politics of (Counter)Revolution in the Middle East
    • israeli palestinian politics
  • Author

    Michaelle L. Browers, Wake Forest University, North Carolina
    Michaelle L. Browers is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wake Forest University. Her recent publications include Democracy and Civil Society in Arab Political Thought: Transcultural Possibilities (2006) and An Islamic Reformation? (with Charles Kurzman, 2004).

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