Reimagining Arab Political Identity: Justice, Women's Rights and the Arab State Contributor(s): Hawa, Salam (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138354694 ISBN-13: 9781138354692 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Regional Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
Dewey: 306.209 |
LCCN: 2021014797 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.03 lbs) 192 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |