Liberal thought in the Eastern Mediterranean : late 19th century until the 1960s /

Liberal thought in the Eastern Mediterranean : late 19th century until the 1960s /

This volume analyzes liberal thought in the Eastern Mediterranean since the late nineteenth century, highlighting its long-term and ongoing influence, and challenging the conventional wisdom that liberalism has no legitimate place in the region's intellectual discourse. By investigating the act...

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Other Authors: Schumann, Christoph.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2008.

Series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia 104.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2008, ISBN: 9789004223035.

Subjects:

Arab nationalism.
Civilization, Arab > Western influences.
Liberalism > Arab countries.
Mandates > Arab countries.
Secularism > Turkey.
Arab countries > Intellectual life.
Arab countries > Politics and government.

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Call Number: JC574.2.A6 L53 2008

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Materials /
  • C. Schumann
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. The Question Of American Liberalism And The Origins Of The American Board Mission To The Levant And Its Historiography /
  • Ussama Makdisi
  • Chapter Two. The Mandate System: High Ideals, Illiberal Practices /
  • Peter Sluglett
  • Chapter Three. "Liberal Colonialism" And Martial Law In French Mandate Syria /
  • Michael Provence
  • Chapter Four. The Syrian University And The French Mandate (1920-1946) /
  • Abdul-Karim Rafeq
  • Chapter Five. Liberal Education At The American University Of Beirut (Aub): Protest, Protestantism, And The Meaning Of Freedom /
  • Betty S. Anderson
  • Chapter Six. The Ottoman Revolution Of 1908 As Seen By Al-Hilāl And Al-Manār: The Triumph And Diversification Of The Reformist Spirit /
  • Anne-Laure Dupont
  • Chapter Seven. The Nahḍa Revisited: Socialism And Radicalism In Beirut And Mount Lebanon, 1900 1914 /
  • Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
  • Chapter Eight. Liberal Practices In The Transformation From Empire To Nation-State: The Rump Ottoman Empire, 1918-1923 /
  • Hasan Kayal
  • Chapter Nine. Writing A Constitution: Constitutional Debates In Syria In The Mandate Period /
  • Eyal Zisser
  • Chapter Ten. Lebanese Arab Nationalists And Consociational Democracy During The French Mandate Period /
  • Raghid K. El-Solh
  • Chapter Eleven. Within Or Without? Ameen Rihani And The Transcultural Space Between The "West" And The "East"
  • Chapter Twelve. Who Gets To Become The Liberal Subject? Ventriloquized Memoirs And The Individual In 1920s Egypt /
  • Marilyn Booth
  • Chapter Thirteen. Illiberal Metamorphoses Of A Liberal Discourse: The Case Of Syrian Intellectual Sami Al-Kayyali (1898-1972) /
  • Manfred Sing
  • List Of Contributors /
  • C. Schumann
  • Index Of Political Terms /
  • C. Schumann
  • Index Of Institutions, Organizations, And Periodicals /
  • C. Schumann
  • Index Of Personal Names /
  • C. Schumann.