Research Catalog

Title

Radical Arab nationalism and political Islam / Lahouari Addi ; translated by Anthony Roberts.

Author

Addi, Lahouari, 1949-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press : Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 2017.

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Additional Authors

Roberts, Anthony (Translator)

Description

pages cm

Summary

Radical Arab nationalism emerged in the modern era as a response to European political and cultural domination, culminating in a series of military coups in the mid-20th century in Egypt, Algeria, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. This movement heralded the dawn of modern, independent nations that would close the economic, social, scientific, and military gaps with the West while building a unity of Arab nations. But this dream failed. In fact, radical Arab nationalism became a barrier to civil peace and national cohesion, most tragically demonstrated in the case of Syria, for two reasons: 1) national armies militarized nationalism and its political objectives; 2) these nations did not keep pace with the intellectual and political and cultural and social progress of European nations that offered, for example, freedom of speech and thought. It was the failure of radical Arab nationalism, Addi contends, that made the more recent political Islam so popular. But if radical nationalism militarized politics, the Islamists politicized religion. Today, the prevailing medieval interpretation of Islam, defended by the Islamists, prevents these nations from making progress and achieving the kind of social justice that radical Arab nationalism once promised. Will political Islam fail, too? Can nations ruled by political Islam accommodate modernity? Their success or failure, Addi writes, depends upon this question.

Subjects

• Arab countries > Politics and government
• Islam and politics > Arab countries
• Arab nationalism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Origins and perspectives of Arab nationalism -- The emergence and development of Arab nationalism -- Wahhabism as a proto-nationalism -- Liberal nationalism in Egypt -- From liberal Arabism to radical Arab nationalism -- The ideological limitations of radical Arab nationalism -- Radical Arab nationalism against the market -- Populism against society -- Economism as a response to cultural crisis -- Nationalism and nation -- The militarization of politics -- The aggressive nature of nationalism -- What is a nation if its people are not sovereign? -- The ideological and political dynamics of Islamism -- Islamism as cultural representation and ideological will -- The cultural roots of Islamism -- The making of Islamist ideology : Sayyid Qutb and Abul A'la Mawdudi -- Toward post-Islamism? -- Islamism and democracy -- Democracy and political participation -- The Al Hakimiyya li Allah slogan -- The question of Sharia -- The ideological and political perspectives of Islamism -- The cultural heterogeneity of contemporary Arab society -- Al-nahda, Sufism, and Islamism -- Eventful regression.

Call Number

JFE 17-7872

ISBN

• 9781626164505
• 1626164509

LCCN

2017006997

OCLC

2017006997

Author

Addi, Lahouari, 1949- author.

Title

Radical Arab nationalism and political Islam / Lahouari Addi ; translated by Anthony Roberts.

Publisher

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press : Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Roberts, Anthony (Translator), translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Addi, Lahouari, 1949- author. Radical Arab nationalism and political Islam Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press : Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 2017 9781626164512 (DLC) 2017018127

Research Call Number

JFE 17-7872