Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East
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The Arab Spring uprising of 2011 is portrayed as a dawn of democracy in the region. But the revolutionaries were--and saw themselves as--heirs to a centuries-long struggle for just government and the rule of law. In Justice Interrupted we see the complex...
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The Arab Spring uprising of 2011 is portrayed as a dawn of democracy in the region. But the revolutionaries were--and saw themselves as--heirs to a centuries-long struggle for just government and the rule of law. In Justice Interrupted we see the complex lineage of political idealism, reform, and violence that informs today's Middle East.
Autoren-Porträt von Elizabeth F. Thompson
Elizabeth F. Thompson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Elizabeth F. Thompson
- 418 Seiten, Maße: 16,6 x 23,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: HARVARD UNIV PR
- ISBN-10: 0674073134
- ISBN-13: 9780674073135
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2013
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Englisch
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Thompson sees the thirst for justice and reform blossoming as long as 400 years ago, when the region was in the hands of the Ottoman Empire. In the generations since, bureaucrats, intellectuals, workers, and peasants have seized on the language of empire, law, and even Islam to agitate for rights and due process...Most intriguing, she finds elements of this constitutional liberalism even within fundamentalist Islamist movements that democratizers most worry about. These threads suggest a possible way forward, a way to build a constitutional, democratic consensus on indigenous if often overlooked traditions. Islamists and secular Arabs, it turns out, have found common ground in the past, even written constitutions together. The same could happen again now...It's easy to assume that religiously driven movements are all antidemocratic--and indeed, some have proven so in practice, like the ayatollahs in Iran or the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. But Thompson offers a more nuanced view, showing that many of these religious movements have internalized central elements of liberal discourse.--Thanassis Cambanis"Boston Globe" (08/18/2013)
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