Arab World Society, Culture, and State

Name: Arab World Society, Culture, and State
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ISBN: 9780520084278

ISBN-10: 0520084276

ISBN-13: 9780520084278

Edition: 1993

Authors: Halim Barakat

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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…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/14/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English