{"product_id":"the-arab-world-9780520084278","title":"The Arab World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn examination of Arab society and culture that offers an opportunity to know the Arab world from an Arab point of view. It emphasizes the changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE: ARAB IDENTITY AND ISSUES OF DIVERSITY AND\u003cbr\u003e INTEGRATION: OUT OF MANY, ONE\u003cbr\u003e 1. Social and Political Integration: Alternative Visions of the\u003cbr\u003e Future\u003cbr\u003e Historical Context\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e 2. Arab Society: Basic Characteristic Features\u003cbr\u003e A Critical Approach: Some Methodological Observations\u003cbr\u003e Some Characteristic Features: Arab Society\u003cbr\u003e Basics: The Physical Setting, Demography, and Ecology\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e 3. Arab Identity: E pluribus unum\u003cbr\u003e The Arab Sense: Belonging\u003cbr\u003e Shared Culture and Its Variations\u003cbr\u003e The Place of Arabs in History and Their Common Experiences\u003cbr\u003e Shared Economic Interests\u003cbr\u003e External Challenges and Political Unity\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Continuity of Old Cleavages: Tribe, Village, City\u003cbr\u003e The Bedouin Way: Life\u003cbr\u003e The Peasantry and the Village\u003cbr\u003e The City: Urbanization: Society\u003cbr\u003e Nature: The Relationships between Tribe, Village, and City\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO: SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONS: OUT OF\u003cbr\u003e ONE, MANY \u003cbr\u003e 5. Social Classes: Beyond the Mosaic Model\u003cbr\u003e The Emerging Arab Economic Order\u003cbr\u003e Bases of Class Distinction and Formation\u003cbr\u003e Basic Classes in Contemporary Arab Society\u003cbr\u003e Class Relations: Class Consciousness and Class Struggle\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Arab Family and the Challenge of Change\u003cbr\u003e The Basic Characteristics of the Arab Family\u003cbr\u003e Marriage and Divorce Patterns\u003cbr\u003e The Family and Society\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e 7. Religion in Society\u003cbr\u003e The Sociology of Islam\u003cbr\u003e The Social Origins of Religion\u003cbr\u003e Religion and Sect\u003cbr\u003e Official versus Folk or Popular Religion\u003cbr\u003e Religions as Mechanisms of Control, Instigation, and Reconciliation\u003cbr\u003e The Interrelationship between Religion and Other Social Institutions\u003cbr\u003e Religion and the State--Secularism versus Theocracy\u003cbr\u003e Alienation from and in Religion\u003cbr\u003e Religion and Change: Transformation or Conformity?\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e 8. Arab Politics: Its Social Context\u003cbr\u003e The Starting Point of Analysis\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of the Traditional Urban Big Bourgeoisie\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of the Intermediate National Bourgeoisie: Western Liberalism,\u003cbr\u003e Nationalism, Arab Socialism, and Religious Fundamentalism\u003cbr\u003e The Working Classes and the Left\u003cbr\u003e The Authoritarian Nature of the Arab Systems\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Crisis of Civil Society\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE: THE DYNAMICS OF ARAB CULTURE\u003cbr\u003e 9. National Character and Value Orientations\u003cbr\u003e The Question of National Character\u003cbr\u003e Arab Value Orientations\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e 10. Creative Expression: Society and Literary Orientations \u003cbr\u003e Orientations in Arabic Literature \u003cbr\u003e Novels of Reconciliation\u003cbr\u003e Novels of Exposure\u003cbr\u003e Novels of Revolutionary Change\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e 11. Arab Thought: Problems of Renewal, Modernity, and\u003cbr\u003e Transformation\u003cbr\u003e Arab Thought in the Formative Period (1850-1914)\u003cbr\u003e Arab Thought and the Struggle for National Independence\u003cbr\u003e (1918-1945)\u003cbr\u003e Independence and Postindependence, 1945-1992: Researching the\u003cbr\u003e Roots of Disaster\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e PART FOUR: THE CRISIS OF CIVIL SOCIETY APPROACHING THE\u003cbr\u003e HORIZON OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY\u003cbr\u003e 12. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Visions for the Future\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Select Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864840450391,"sku":"9780520084278","price":24.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520084278.jpg?v=1722273218","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-arab-world-9780520084278","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}