Justice interrupted : the struggle for constitutional government in the Middle East / Elizabeth F. Thompson.
By: Thompson, Elizabeth [author.]
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013Description: xi, 418 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780674073135 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Middle East -- Politics and government -- 20th century | Middle East -- Politics and governmentt -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 320.956 | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due |
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General Shelf | English | DS 62.8 T469 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Chronology.
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