Nationalism and Liberal Thought in the Arab East

Abstract

Introduction Part I: Nationalism and Liberal Thought 1. The role of traditional religious scholars in Iraqi politics from the Young Turk period until 1920: the example of Yusuf al-Suwaydi Thomas Eich 2. Who is in 1930s Iraq? Education as a contested terrain in a nascent public sphere Peter Wien 3. Liberal champions of pan-Arabism: Syria's second Iizb al-Sha'b Fred H. Lawson 4. Nation, state, and democracy in the writings of Zaki al-Arsuzi Dalal Arsuzi-Elamir 5. Nationalism as a cause: Arab nationalism in the writings of Ghassan Kanafani Orit Bashkin Part II: Arab intellectuals and liberal thought 6. Modernity, romanticism, and religion: contradictions in the writings of Farah Antun Alexander Flores 7. Progress and liberal thought in al-Hil'al, al-Man'ar, and al-Muqta'aaf before World War I Thomas Philipp 8. Liberal democracy versus fascist totalitarianism in Egyptian intellectual discourse: the case of Salama Musa and 'al-Majalla al-JadDda' Israel Gershoni 9. The failure of radical nationalism and the silence of liberal thought in the Arab world Christoph Schumann