Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- History, language, identity of pre-Islamic Arabia -- Founding of Arab collective memory -- Archiving of Arab collective memory -- Arab identity in transition -- Islamic identity as obligated memory -- Renegotiating the social contract.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This book discusses the idea that Arab cultural and political identity has been suppressed by centuries of dominance by imperial outsiders and by religious and nationalist ideologies with the result that present day Arab societies are characterised by a crisis of identity where fundamentalism or chaos seem to be the only available choices. Tracing developments from pre-Islamic times through to the present, the book analyses the evolution of Arab political identity through a multi-layered lens, including memory and forgetting, social and cultural norms, local laws, poetry, dance, attitudes to women, foreigners and animals, ancient historical narratives and more. It argues that Arab societies have much to gain by recovering the "happy memory" of Arab culture as it was before being distorted"--
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
Taylor & Francis
Stock Number
9780429424625
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Reimagining Arab political identity
International Standard Book Number
9781138354692
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Collective memory-- Political aspects-- Arab countries.
Group identity-- Political aspects-- Arab countries.