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