The Arab predicament
Subtitle: Arab political thought and practice since 1967
By: Fouad Ajami
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780521239141; 9780521270632
Subjects: Politics and government; Politisches System; Politique et gouvernement; Politieke situatie
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. One's world as it really is ; The radical sensibility ; The Baʹth Party : a retrospect ; The Islamic response : radical fundamentalism ; Conservative fundamentalism; title: 2. Egypt as state, as Arab mirror ; The legacy reassessed ; The Egyptian search ; The ways of the pharoah, the ways of others ; The push of the desert, the pull of the Mediterranean ; Egypt as mirroe, as state; title: 3. Fractured tradition : the clams of authenticity, the realities of dependence ; The "revolution" contained ; The dominant order's brief triumph ; The question of authenticity and collaboration ; The rulers' Islam, Islam of the ruled ; The ways of the ancestors, the ways of the world.