The Arab World: Society, Culture, and StateUniversity of California Press, 1993年10月14日 - 348 頁 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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Alternative Visions of | 3 |
Basic Characteristic Features | 12 |
E pluribus unum | 32 |
The Place of Arabs in History and Their Common Experiences | 43 |
Beyond the Mosaic Model | 73 |
The Arab Family and the Challenge of Change | 97 |
Religion in Society | 119 |
Its Social Context | 148 |
National Character and Value Orientations | 181 |
Society and Literary Orientations | 206 |
Problems of Renewal Modernity | 239 |
Conclusion | 269 |
Notes | 285 |
Glossary | 313 |
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