Between memory and desire: the Middle East in a troubled age /
Humphreys, R. Stephen
Between memory and desire: the Middle East in a troubled age / R. Stephen Humphreys - Updated with a new preface. - Berkeley: University of California Press, c2005. - xxxiv, 297 p.; 23 cm.
Includes bibliography and index.
1. Hard realities : population growth and economic stagnation -- 2. From imperialism to the new world order : the Middle East in search of a future -- 3. The strange career of Pan-Arabism -- 4. The shaping of foreign policy : the myth of the Middle East madman -- 5. Military dictatorship and political tradition in the Middle East -- 6. Profane and sacred politics : the ends of power in the Middle East -- 7. Islam as a political system -- 8. Jihad and the politics of salvation -- 9. Women in public life : Islamic perspectives, Middle Eastern realities -- 10. Islam and human rights -- Toward a conclusion-between memory and desire
0520246918 (alk. paper) 9780520246911 (alk. paper)
Islam and politics--Middle East.
Middle East--Politics and government
956.04 / HUM/B
Between memory and desire: the Middle East in a troubled age / R. Stephen Humphreys - Updated with a new preface. - Berkeley: University of California Press, c2005. - xxxiv, 297 p.; 23 cm.
Includes bibliography and index.
1. Hard realities : population growth and economic stagnation -- 2. From imperialism to the new world order : the Middle East in search of a future -- 3. The strange career of Pan-Arabism -- 4. The shaping of foreign policy : the myth of the Middle East madman -- 5. Military dictatorship and political tradition in the Middle East -- 6. Profane and sacred politics : the ends of power in the Middle East -- 7. Islam as a political system -- 8. Jihad and the politics of salvation -- 9. Women in public life : Islamic perspectives, Middle Eastern realities -- 10. Islam and human rights -- Toward a conclusion-between memory and desire
0520246918 (alk. paper) 9780520246911 (alk. paper)
Islam and politics--Middle East.
Middle East--Politics and government
956.04 / HUM/B