Between memory and desire : the Middle East in a troubled age / R. Stephen Humphreys.
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Hard realities: population growth and economic stagnation
- From imperialism to the new world order: the Middle East in search of a future
- The strange career of Pan-Arabism
- The shaping of foreign policy: the myth of the Middle East madman
- Military dictatorship and political tradition in the Middle East
- Profane and sacred politics: the ends of power in the Middle East
- Islam as a political system
- Jihad and the politics of salvation
- Women in public life: Islamic perspectives, Middle Eastern realities
- Islam and human rights.