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Justice interrupted : the struggle for constitutional government in the Middle East
Title
Justice interrupted : the struggle for constitutional government in the Middle East / Elizabeth F. Thompson.
ISBN
9780674073135 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0674073134 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
xi, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 16, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I: The rise of a constitutional model of justice, 1839-1920
Mustafa Ali: Ottoman justice and bureaucratic reform
Tanyus Shahin of Mount Lebanon: peasant republic and Christian rights
Ahmad Urabi and Nizam al-Islam: a new model of justice in Egypt and Iran
Part II: Movements for local and collective models of justice, 1920-1965
Halide Edib, Turkey's Joan of Arc: the fate of liberalism after World War I
David Ben-Gurion and Musa Kazim in Palestine: genocide and justice for the nation
Hasan al-Banna of Egypt: the Muslim Brothers?
Pursuit of Islamic justice
Comrade Fahd: the mass appeal of communism in Iraq
Akram al-Hourani and the Baath Party in Syria: bringing peasants into politics
Part III: Struggles for justice in the absence of a political arena after 1965
Abu Iyad: the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the turn to political violence
Sayyid Qutb and Ali Shariati: the idea of Islamic revolution in Egypt and Iran
Wael Ghonim of Egypt: the Arab Spring and the return of universal rights
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