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Reimagining Arab political identity : justice, women's rights, and the Arab state
- Title
- Reimagining Arab political identity : justice, women's rights, and the Arab state / Salam Hawa.
- Author
- Hawa, Salam
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- xi, 191 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This book discusses the idea that Arab cultural and political identity has been suppressed by centuries of dominance by imperial outsiders and by religious and nationalist ideologies with the result that present day Arab societies are characterised by a crisis of identity where fundamentalism or chaos seem to be the only available choices. Tracing developments from pre-Islamic times through to the present, the book analyses the evolution of Arab political identity through a multi-layered lens, including memory and forgetting, social and cultural norms, local laws, poetry, dance, attitudes to women, foreigners and animals, ancient historical narratives and more. It argues that Arab societies have much to gain by recovering the "happy memory" of Arab culture as it was before being distorted"--
- Series Statement
- Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series ; 52
- Uniform Title
- Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series ; 52.
- Subject
- Political culture > Arab countries
- Group identity > Political aspects > Arab countries
- Collective memory > Political aspects > Arab countries
- Islam and politics > Arab countries
- Islam and justice > Arab countries
- Women's rights > Arab countries
- Group identity > Political aspects
- Islam and justice
- Islam and politics
- Political culture
- Women's rights
- Arab countries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- History, language, identity of pre-Islamic Arabia -- Founding of Arab collective memory -- Archiving of Arab collective memory -- Arab identity in transition -- Islamic identity as obligated memory -- Renegotiating the social contract.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-1050
- ISBN
- 9781138354692
- 1138354694
- 9781032079110
- 1032079118
- LCCN
- 2021014797
- OCLC
- 1246676927
- Author
- Hawa, Salam, author.
- Title
- Reimagining Arab political identity : justice, women's rights, and the Arab state / Salam Hawa.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series ; 52Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series ; 52.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Hawa, Salam. Reimagining Arab political identity Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 9780429424625 (DLC) 2021014798
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-1050