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Reimagining Arab Political Identity: Justice, Women's Rights and the Arab State

Reimagining Arab Political Identity: Justice, Women's Rights and the Arab State

Hardcover

Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138354694
ISBN13: 9781138354692
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 19 2021
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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