Islam against the West: Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism: CMES Modern Middle East Series
Autor William L. Clevelanden Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 1985
Rather than retreating from public life in those dark days, however, Arslan emerged militant in his opposition to Western encroachment on Islamic lands and tireless in his crusade to bring the organizing principles of a universalist Islam to the age of emerging nation-states. Organizer, pamphleteer, diplomat, spokesman, and symbol, Arslan became one of the dominant, and most controversial, Muslim political figures in the two decades between the wars. His involvements were so varied and intense that to study his life is to bring into focus all the major political issues and intellectual currents of the era. By the end of his career he was both praised and vilified, but he was arguably the most widely read Arab author of his day.
Curiously, Arslan has received relatively little attention in English-language research. This may well be due less to his contemporary importance than to the perspective from which Western scholarship has viewed Middle Eastern intellectual history. Arslan was not one of the winners. For many his evocation of the old imperial ideal and his insistence on the strategic importance of Islamic ideals seemed to be simply archaic protest in a secular age. But this impeccably researched and beautifully written biography demonstrates the power and importance of Arslan’s activist heritage, reinterpreting it for its own time and showing its importance for ours.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292737334
ISBN-10: 0292737335
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria CMES Modern Middle East Series
ISBN-10: 0292737335
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria CMES Modern Middle East Series
Notă biografică
William Cleveland (1941–2006) was an award-winning teacher and distinguished scholar of the modern Middle East.
Cuprins
- A Note on Sources
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Formation of an Arab-Ottoman Gentleman
- 2. War and Exile
- 3. Adoption of the Arab Cause
- 4. Advocate of Islamic Nationalism: The Arab East
- 5. Mentor to a Generation: North Africa
- 6. The Integrity of Tradition
- 7. Toward the Axis
- 8. Conclusion
- A Chronology of Shakib Arslan
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Descriere
This book gives a unique perspective on the interwar history of the Middle East; by telling the life story of one man, it illuminates the political and cultural struggles of an era.