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Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival - The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East (Hardcover)
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Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival - The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East (Hardcover)
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Over the past decade, the political ground beneath the Middle East
has shifted. Arab nationalism the political orthodoxy for most of
this century has lost its grip on the imagination and allegiance of
a new generation. At the same time, Islam as an ideology has spread
across the region, and "Islamists" bid to capture the center of
politics. Most Western scholars and experts once hailed the
redemptive power of Arabism. Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival is
a critical assessment of the contradictions of Arab nationalism and
Islamic fundamentalism, and the misrepresentation of both in the
West. The first part of the book argues that Arab nationalism--the
so-called Arab awakening--bore within it the seeds of its own
failure. Arabism as an idea drew upon foreign sources and
resources. Even as it claimed to liberate the Arabs from
imperialism it deepened intellectual dependence upon the West's own
romanticism and radicalism. Ultimately, Arab nationalism became a
force of oppression rather than liberation, and a mirror image of
the imperialism it defied. Kramer's essays together form the only
chronological telling and the at fully documented postmortem of
Arabism. The second part of the book examines the similar failings
of Islamism, whose ideas are Islamic reworkings of Western
ideological radicalism. Its effect has been to give new life to old
rationales for oppression, authoritarianism, and sectarian
division. Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival provides an
alternative view of a century of Middle Eastern history. As the
region moves fitfully past ideology, Kramer's perspective is more
compelling than at any time in the past-in Western academe no less
than among many in the Middle. This book will be of interest to
sociologists, political scientists, economists, and Middle East
specialists.
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