Arab Nationalism: Between Islam and the Nation-State

by Bassam Tibi

Book Overview

The third edition includes a new Part Five on the tensions between Arab nationalism and Islam arising from the crisis of the nation-state and of the de-legitimisation of Pan-Arab regimes. The effects of the Arab defeat in the Six-Day War 1967 and the rise of political Islam in the 1970s are the focus of the new part. The background of the analysis of the impact and function of nationalism and its contribution to social and political change in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312162863
• ISBN13: 9780312162863
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"