Justice interrupted the struggle for constitutional government in the Middle East /

Thompson, Elizabeth (1959-....)

Justice interrupted the struggle for constitutional government in the Middle East / [Texte imprimé] : Elizabeth F. Thompson - Cambridge ; London : Harvard University Press, 2013 - 1 vol. (XI-418 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm

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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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