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Freedom in the Arab World - Concepts and Ideologies in Arabic Thought in the Nineteenth Century

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Informationen zum Autor Wael Abu-?Uksa is a Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and an assistant professor in the Political Science department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, Massachusetts. During the course of his career, he received many grants and scholarships including the Stephen Robert Memorial Prize in Excellence and a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship. His publications include Liberalism and Left in Arab Thought after 1990. Klappentext An examination of the concept of freedom in nineteenth-century Arabic political thought, and how it relates to other modern ideologies.A preoccupation with the subject of 'freedom' is a core issue in the construction of all modern political ideologies. Wael Abu-'Uksa examines the development of the concept of freedom in nineteenth-century Arabic thought, its ideological offshoots, and their substance as they developed within the context of a changing Middle East. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The politicization of freedom, 1798-1820; 2. A conceptual view of Arabic modernity through two key concepts, 'civilization' and 'progress' (tamaddun and taqaddum); 3. Burdening the political aspects of freedom: the formative period, 1820-60; 4. The construction of modern ideologies in Arabic, 1860-82; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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