Temperament and Character of the Arabs
Author: Sania Hamady
Publisher: Ardent Media
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 290
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sania Hamady
Publisher: Ardent Media
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 290
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sania Author Hamady
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781014210487
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Halim Barakat
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1993-10-14
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780520914421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 scholar and novelist, emphasizes the dynamic changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-nineteenth century. The Arab world is not one shaped by Islam, nor 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. Arguing from a perspective that is both radical and critical, Barakat is committed to the improvement of human conditions in the Arab world.
Author: Kenneth Michael Pollack
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 697
ISBN-13: 0190906960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Armies of Sand asks, 'why have Arab militaries fought so poorly in the modern era?' It examines the performance of over two-dozen Arab militaries from 1948 to 2017, and compares them to a half-dozen non-Arab militaries, to conclude that politics, economics, and culture all contributed to the past weakness of Arab armies.
Author: Solomon Lipp
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 1980-04-18
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0889200793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author analyzes Mexican national identity in the context of the philosophy of Leopoldo Zea, contemporary Mexican thinker. He attempts to establish national character traits peculiar to Mexico, using sociological, psychological, historical, and philosophical approaches. He then shows how Zea deals with the problem of Mexican identity and how he relates specifically Mexican concepts to universal philosophic and historic thought. Ranging widely over many disciplines, this scholarly study will be particularly valuable to readers familiar with philosophy, sociology, and psychology.
Author: Nissim Rejwan
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009-02-17
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0292774451
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is an Arab? Though many in the West would answer that question with simplistic stereotypes, the reality is far more complex and interesting. Arabs themselves have been debating Arab identity since pre-Islamic times, coming to a variety of conclusions about the nature and extent of their “Arabness.” Likewise, Westerners and others have attempted to analyze Arab identity, reaching mostly negative conclusions about Arab culture and capacity for self-government. To bring new perspectives to the question of Arab identity, Iraqi-born scholar Nissim Rejwan has assembled this fascinating collection of writings by Arab and Western intellectuals, who try to define what it means to be Arab. He begins with pre-Islamic times and continues to the last decades of the twentieth century, quoting thinkers ranging from Ibn Khaldun to modern writers such as al-Ansari, Haykal, Ahmad Amin, al-'Azm, and Said. Through their works, Rejwan shows how Arabs have grappled with such significant issues as the influence of Islam, the rise of nationalism, the quest for democracy, women's status, the younger generation, Egypt's place in the Arab world, Israel's role in Middle Eastern conflict, and the West's "cultural invasion." By letting Arabs speak for themselves, Arabs in the Mirror refutes a prominent Western stereotype—that Arabs are incapable of self-reflection or self-government. On the contrary, it reveals a rich tradition of self-criticism and self-knowledge in the Arab world.
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Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 732
ISBN-13: 0803287836
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kenneth M. Pollack, formerly a Persian Gulf military analyst at the CIA and Director for Persian Gulf Affairs at the National Security Council, describes and analyzes theømilitary history of the six key Arab states?Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria?during the post?World War II era. He shows in detail how each Arab military grew and learned from its own experiences in response to the specific objectives set for it and within often constrained political, economic, and social circumstances. This first-ever overview of the modern Arab approach to warfare provides a better understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the Arab militaries, some of which are the United States? most likely adversaries, and some of which are our most important allies.
Author: Yehoshafat Harkabi
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780470352038
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: A. L. Macfie
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780814756652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the decolonization period after World War II, Edward Said and other scholars identified and fought against Orientalism: the theory and practice of representing the East in Western thought. The 37 essays and excerpts reprinted here provide students and other readers with a cross-section of the debate that has followed. They are not indexed. c. Book News Inc.