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The Resource The search for Arab democracy : discourses and counter-discourses, Larbi Sadiki

The search for Arab democracy : discourses and counter-discourses, Larbi Sadiki

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The search for Arab democracy : discourses and counter-discourses
Title
The search for Arab democracy
Title remainder
discourses and counter-discourses
Statement of responsibility
Larbi Sadiki
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Cataloging source
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Sadiki, Larbi
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • Democratization
  • Democracy
  • Islam and politics
  • Arab countries
Label
The search for Arab democracy : discourses and counter-discourses, Larbi Sadiki
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-434) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
1. Contesting democracy: discourses and counter-discourses -- The democratic problematique: absence not presence -- Focus and purpose -- The democratic debate -- Discursive context -- Words and worlds -- About this book -- 2. Defoundationalising democracy and the Arabo-Islamic setting -- Foundationalism -- The ethos of democracy and contestation in the Arabo-Islamic setting -- 3. Democracy as an occidentalist discourse -- Definitions and concepts -- Rediscovering the West: from al-Afghānī to al-Tahṭāwī -- Islamist counter-discourses and the politics of identity -- Imaginings of the "West" and "democracy" in Islamic discourses -- 4. Democracy as an Orientalist discourse -- Background -- Orientalism in modernist discourses -- Said and istishrāq -- 5. Contemporary Arab conceptions of democracy -- Democracy and freedom: a background -- Al-Farābī's virtuous city -- Nahḍawiyyūn: iṣlāh without dīmuqrāṭiyyaḥ -- Dimuqrāṭiyyah, ḥurriyah: a contemporary kaleidoscope -- 6. Arab women and democracy: breaking out -- Theoretical background -- "Male feminism" -- Arab women's conceptions of democracy -- Feminisation, Islamisation and democratisation -- Women and politics in the AME -- 7. The West and the sponsoring of Arab authoritarianism: Islamist narratives -- Islamists against Eurocentricism and Orientalism -- Foreign powers in the AME and democracy -- Exporting democracy: the Islamist dimension -- 8. Discoursing Islam and democracy: tests and contests, texts and contexts -- From test to contest -- From text to context
Control code
47443917
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xxii, 457 pages
Isbn
9780231125819
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2001042519
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Label
The search for Arab democracy : discourses and counter-discourses, Larbi Sadiki
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-434) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
1. Contesting democracy: discourses and counter-discourses -- The democratic problematique: absence not presence -- Focus and purpose -- The democratic debate -- Discursive context -- Words and worlds -- About this book -- 2. Defoundationalising democracy and the Arabo-Islamic setting -- Foundationalism -- The ethos of democracy and contestation in the Arabo-Islamic setting -- 3. Democracy as an occidentalist discourse -- Definitions and concepts -- Rediscovering the West: from al-Afghānī to al-Tahṭāwī -- Islamist counter-discourses and the politics of identity -- Imaginings of the "West" and "democracy" in Islamic discourses -- 4. Democracy as an Orientalist discourse -- Background -- Orientalism in modernist discourses -- Said and istishrāq -- 5. Contemporary Arab conceptions of democracy -- Democracy and freedom: a background -- Al-Farābī's virtuous city -- Nahḍawiyyūn: iṣlāh without dīmuqrāṭiyyaḥ -- Dimuqrāṭiyyah, ḥurriyah: a contemporary kaleidoscope -- 6. Arab women and democracy: breaking out -- Theoretical background -- "Male feminism" -- Arab women's conceptions of democracy -- Feminisation, Islamisation and democratisation -- Women and politics in the AME -- 7. The West and the sponsoring of Arab authoritarianism: Islamist narratives -- Islamists against Eurocentricism and Orientalism -- Foreign powers in the AME and democracy -- Exporting democracy: the Islamist dimension -- 8. Discoursing Islam and democracy: tests and contests, texts and contexts -- From test to contest -- From text to context
Control code
47443917
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xxii, 457 pages
Isbn
9780231125819
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2001042519
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n

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