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The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State
by Halim Barakat
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0520079078
- ISBN 13
- 9780520079076
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Berkeley: University of California Press, February 1993. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Good+ book in a Fine jacket. Occasional ink emphasis marks from a prior owner. Spine square and tight. Jacket clean and crisp. Foxing to edges. 362 pagers.
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 a scholar and a novelist, emphasizes the dynamic changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-19th century. His is a picture that differs dramatically from the static one portrayed by much of Western scholarship. Barakat maintains that the unequal power relationships between Western imperial forces and Arabs have strongly influenced Western writing, thereby limiting our understanding of what it means to be Arab. The Arab world is not one shaped by Islam, or 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.
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 a scholar and a novelist, emphasizes the dynamic changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-19th century. His is a picture that differs dramatically from the static one portrayed by much of Western scholarship. Barakat maintains that the unequal power relationships between Western imperial forces and Arabs have strongly influenced Western writing, thereby limiting our understanding of what it means to be Arab. The Arab world is not one shaped by Islam, or 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.
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- Title
- The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State
- Author
- Halim Barakat
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0520079078
- ISBN 13
- 9780520079076
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- February 1993
- Pages
- 362 pages
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Arab, Arabs, Middle East, civilization, society, culture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asia; Middle East;
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