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

This book is concerned with the relationship between nationalism and liberal thought in the Arab East 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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

This book is concerned with the relationship between nationalism and liberal thought in the Arab East 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.

Product details

• Authors: Christoph Schumann
• Assisted by: Christoph Schumann (Editor), Schumann Christoph (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2014
• EAN: 9781138788756
• ISBN: 978-1-138-78875-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East; SOAS/Routledge Studies on the
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Military / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Nationalism, Middle East, Colonialism & imperialism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Regional Studies, Middle Eastern history, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, History and Archaeology, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies