The Arab World Today

The Arab World Today
Author: Morroe Berger
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1962
Genre: Arab countries
ISBN:

When in the Arab World

When in the Arab World
Author: Rana F.. Nejem
Publisher:
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2016
Genre:
ISBN: 9781911195214

When in the Arab World is written from the inside for anyone who wants to live or work with Arab culture.

Making the Arab World

Making the Arab World
Author: Fawaz A. Gerges
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 069119646X

Based on a decade of research, including in-depth interviews with many leading figures in the story, this edition is essential for anyone who wants to understand the roots of the turmoil engulfing the Middle East, from civil wars to the rise of Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

Inside the Arab World

Inside the Arab World
Author: Michael Field
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674455214

Comprehensive survey of the Arab world.

Democracy in the Arab World

Democracy in the Arab World
Author: Ibrahim Elbadawi
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0415779995

Despite notable socio-economic development in the Arab region, a deficit in democracy and political rights has continued to prevail. This book examines the major reasons underlying the persistence of this democracy deficit over the past decades, drawing on case studies from across the Arab world to explore economic development, political institutions and social factors, and the impact of oil wealth and regional wars.

Muslims Beyond the Arab World

Muslims Beyond the Arab World
Author: Fallou Ngom
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190279869

Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the vibrant tradition of writing African languages using the modified Arabic script ('Ajami) alongside the rise of the Muridiyya Sufi order in Senegal. The book demonstrates how the development of the 'Ajami literary tradition is entwined with the flourishing of the Muridiyya into one of sub-Saharan Africa's most powerful and dynamic Sufi organizations. It offers a close reading of the rich hagiographic and didactic written, recited, and chanted 'Ajami texts of the Muridiyya, works largely unknown to scholars. The texts describe the life and Sufi odyssey of the order's founder, Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba Mbakke (1853-1927), his conflicts with local rulers and Muslim clerics and the French colonial administration, and the traditions and teachings he championed that permanently shaped the identity and behaviors of his followers. Fallou Ngom evaluates prevailing representations of the Muridiyya movement and offers alternative perspectives. He demonstrates how the Mur'ds used their written, recited, and chanted 'Ajami materials as an effective mass communication tool in conveying to the masses Bamba's poignant odyssey, doctrine, the virtues he stood for and cultivated among his followers-self-esteem, self-reliance, strong faith, work ethic, pursuit of excellence, determination, nonviolence, and optimism in the face of adversity-without the knowledge of the French colonial administration and many academics. Muslims beyond the Arab World argues that this is the source of the resilience, appeal, and expansion of Muridiyya, which has fascinated observers since its inception in 1883.

Knowledge Production in the Arab World

Knowledge Production in the Arab World
Author: Sari Hanafi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317364104

Over recent decades we have witnessed the globalization of research. However, this has yet to translate into a worldwide scientific network, across which competencies and resources can flow freely. Arab countries have strived to join this globalized world and become a ‘knowledge economy,’ yet little time has been invested in the region’s fragmented scientific institutions; institutions that should provide opportunities for individuals to step out on the global stage. Knowledge Production in the Arab World investigates research practices in the Arab world, using multiple case studies from the region with particular focus on Lebanon and Jordan. It depicts the Janus-like face of Arab research, poised between the negative and the positive and faced with two potentially opposing strands; local relevance alongside its internationalization. The book critically assesses the role and dynamics of research and poses questions that are crucial to further our understanding of the very particular case of knowledge production in the Arab region. The book explores research’s relevance and whom it serves, as well as the methodological flaws behind academic rankings and the meaning and application of key concepts such as knowledge society/economy. Providing a detailed and comprehensive examination of knowledge production in the Arab world, this book is of interest to students, scholars and policy makers working on the issues of research practices and status of science in contemporary developing countries.

The Arab World

The Arab World
Author: Halim Barakat
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1993-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520914421

This wide-ranging examination of Arab society and culture offers a unique opportunity to know the Arab world from an Arab point of view. Halim Barakat, an expatriate Syrian who is both scholar and novelist, emphasizes the dynamic changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-nineteenth century. The Arab world is not one shaped by Islam, nor one simply explained by reference to the sectarian conflicts of a "mosaic" society. Instead, Barakat reveals a society that is highly complex, with many and various contending polarities. It is a society in a state of becoming and change, one whose social contradictions are at the root of the struggle to transcend dehumanizing conditions. Arguing from a perspective that is both radical and critical, Barakat is committed to the improvement of human conditions in the Arab world.

Structuring Conflict in the Arab World

Structuring Conflict in the Arab World
Author: Ellen Lust-Okar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2005-01-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139442732

This book examines how ruling elites manage and manipulate their political opposition in the Middle East. In contrast to discussions of government-opposition relations that focus on how rulers either punish or co-opt opponents, this book focuses on the effect of institutional rules governing the opposition. It argues rules determining who is and is not allowed to participate in the formal political arena affect not only the relationships between opponents and the state, but also between various opposition groups. This affects the dynamics of opposition during prolonged economic crises. It also shapes the informal strategies that ruling elites use toward opponents. The argument is presented using a formal model of government-opposition relations. It is demonstrated in the cases of Egypt under Presidents Nasir, Sadat and Mubarek; Jordan under King Husayn; and Morocco under King Hasan II.