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Author:

Thompson, Elizabeth, 1959- author.

Title:

Justice interrupted : the struggle for constitutional government in the Middle East / Elizabeth F. Thompson.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xi, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Middle East--Politics and government--20th century.
Middle East--Politics and governmentt--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0674073134 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780674073135 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)812067717

LCCN:

2012039279

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)