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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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Autor principal: Thompson, Elizabeth F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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