The Arab World

Informationen zum Autor Halim Barakat is Research Professor at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and author of Lebanon in Strife (1979). His several novels in Arabic are widely read in the Middle East. Two novels! Days of Dust and Six Days (1983 and 1990)! have been translated into English. Klappentext "This book will become a classic."-Barbara Aswad! President! Middle Eastern Studies Association Zusammenfassung An examination of Arab society and culture that offers an opportunity to know the Arab world from an Arab point of view. It emphasizes the changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface PART ONE: ARAB IDENTITY AND ISSUES OF DIVERSITY AND INTEGRATION: OUT OF MANY! ONE 1. Social and Political Integration: Alternative Visions of the Future Historical Context Conclusion 2. Arab Society: Basic Characteristic Features A Critical Approach: Some Methodological Observations Some Characteristic Features: Arab Society Basics: The Physical Setting! Demography! and Ecology Conclusion 3. Arab Identity: E pluribus unum The Arab Sense: Belonging Shared Culture and Its Variations The Place of Arabs in History and Their Common Experiences Shared Economic Interests External Challenges and Political Unity Conclusion 4. The Continuity of Old Cleavages: Tribe! Village! City The Bedouin Way: Life The Peasantry and the Village The City: Urbanization: Society Nature: The Relationships between Tribe! Village! and City Conclusion PART TWO: SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONS: OUT OF ONE! MANY  5. Social Classes: Beyond the Mosaic Model The Emerging Arab Economic Order Bases of Class Distinction and Formation Basic Classes in Contemporary Arab Society Class Relations: Class Consciousness and Class Struggle Conclusion 6. The Arab Family and the Challenge of Change The Basic Characteristics of the Arab Family Marriage and Divorce Patterns The Family and Society Conclusion 7. Religion in Society The Sociology of Islam The Social Origins of Religion Religion and Sect Official versus Folk or Popular Religion Religions as Mechanisms of Control! Instigation! and Reconciliation The Interrelationship between Religion and Other Social Institutions Religion and the State--Secularism versus Theocracy Alienation from and in Religion Religion and Change: Transformation or Conformity? Conclusion 8. Arab Politics: Its Social Context The Starting Point of Analysis The Politics of the Traditional Urban Big Bourgeoisie The Politics of the Intermediate National Bourgeoisie: Western Liberalism! Nationalism! Arab Socialism! and Religious Fundamentalism The Working Classes and the Left The Authoritarian Nature of the Arab Systems Conclusion: The Crisis of Civil Society PART THREE: THE DYNAMICS OF ARAB CULTURE 9. National Character and Value Orientations The Question of National Character Arab Value Orientations Conclusion 10. Creative Expression: Society and Literary Orientations  Orientations in Arabic Literature  Novels of Reconciliation Novels of Exposure Novels of Revolutionary Change Conclusion 11. Arab Thought: Problems of Renewal! Modernity! and Transformation Arab Thought in the Formative Period (1850-1914) Arab Thought and the Struggle for National Independence (1918-1945) Independence and Postindependence! 1945-1992: Researching the Roots of Disaster Conclusion PART FOUR: THE CRISIS OF CIVIL SO...

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• Authors: Halim Barakat, Barakat Halim, Halim Barakat
• Assisted by: Halim Barakat (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1993
• EAN: 9780520084278
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08427-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Middle East, Indigenous Peoples, Politics & government, Relating to indigenous peoples, Politics and government