Political Ideology in the Arab World: Accommodation and Transformation

by Michaelle L. Browers

Book Overview

Arab nationalism and Islamism have been the two most potent ideological forces in the Arab region across the twentieth century. Over the last two decades, however, an accommodation of sorts has been developing between liberals, socialists and Islamists, to protest unpopular foreign and domestic policies, such as those aimed at cooperation with Israel or the war in Iraq. By examining the writings of Arab nationalist, socialist and Islamist intellectuals,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521749344
• ISBN13: 9780521749343
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"