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The Arab world : society, culture, and state / Halim Barakat.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993.Description: xiii, 348 p. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0520084276
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| DS 36.86 .M83 1982 Islamic and western concepts of civilization / | DS 36.88 .A4 1998 The dream palace of the Arabs : a generation's odyssey / | DS 36.88 .B36 1993 The Arab world : society, culture, and state / | DS 36.88 .B36 1993 The Arab world : society, culture, and state / | DS 36.88 .H357 2005 Pop culture Arab world! : media, arts, and lifestyle / | DS 36.88 .H357 2007 Popular Culture in the Arab World : arts, politics, and the media / | DS 36.88 .R67 2011 Varieties of Muslim experience : encounters with Arab political and cultural life / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-325) and index
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.
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