Justice Interrupted : The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East /
The Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were often portrayed in the media 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, a struggle obstructed by local elites as well as the interventions...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2013]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- I. THE RISE OF A CONSTITUTIONAL MODEL OF JUSTICE, 1839-1920
- 1. MUSTAFA ALI. Ottoman Justice and Bureaucratic Reform
- 2. TANYUS SHAHIN OF MOUNT LEBANON. Peasant Republic and Christian Rights
- 3. AHMAD URABI AND NAZEM AL-ISLAM KERMANI. Constitutional Justice in Egypt and Iran
- II. MOVEMENTS FOR LOCAL AND COLLECTIVE MODELS OF JUSTICE, 1920-1965
- 4. HALIDE EDIB, TURKEY'S JOAN OF ARC. The Fate of Liberalism after World War I
- 5. DAVID BEN-GURION AND MUSA KAZIM IN PALESTINE. Genocide and Justice for the Nation
- 6. HASAN AL-BANNA OF EGYPT. The Muslim Brotherhood's Pursuit of Islamic Justice
- 7. COMRADE FAHD. The Mass Appeal of Communism in Iraq
- 8. AKRAM AL-HOURANI AND THE BAATH PARTY IN SYRIA. Bringing Peasants into Politics
- III. STRUGGLES FOR JUSTICE IN THE ABSENCE OF A POLITICAL ARENA, SINCE 1965
- 9. ABU IYAD. The Palestine Liberation Organization and the Turn to Political Violence
- 10. SAYYID QUTB AND ALI SHARIATI. The Idea of Islamic Revolution in Egypt and Iran
- 11. WAEL GHONIM OF EGYPT. The Arab Spring and the Return of Universal Rights
- CHRONOLOGY
- NOTES
- FURTHER READING
- INDEX