| Description |
1 online resource (x, 261 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Introduction : a personal example of a temporal script -- The colonizer's time machine and the discourse of "becoming modern" -- The anti-Semitic gaze and the occidentalization of the Jew in Zionist and Israeli nationalism -- The Kemalist acquiescence to the colonizer's time machine -- Arab time-travelers and cultural schizophrenia -- The Islamist time machine and the rebellion against the colonizer's civilizational insult -- Women as the sign of the times -- Conclusion : thinking outside the time-space box of colonial modernity |
| Summary |
To understand the Middle East we must also understand how the West produced a temporal narrative of world history in which westemers placed themselves on top and all others below them. In a landmark reinterpretation of Middle Eastern history, this book shows how Arabs, Muslims, Turks, and Jews absorbed, revised, yet remained loyal to this Western vision. Turkish Kemalism and Israeli Zionism, in their efforts to push their people forward, accepted the narrative almost wholeheartedly, eradicating what they perceived as 'archaic' characteristics of their Jewish and Turkish cultures. Arab nationalists negotiated a more culturally schizophrenic approach to appeasing the colonizer's gaze. But so too, Samman argues, did the Islamists who likewise wanted to improve their societies. But in order to modernize, Islamists prescribed the eradication of Western contamination and reintroduced the prophetic stage that they believe - if the colonizer and their local Arab coconspirators hadn't intervened - would have produced true civilization. Samman's account explains why Islamists broke more radically with the colonizer's insult. For all these nationalists gender would be used as the measuring device of how well they did in relation to the colonizer's gaze |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Nationalism -- Middle East -- Philosophy
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Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy
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Nationalism -- Islamic countries
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Nationalism -- Israel
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Nationalism -- Turkey.
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Nationalism -- Arab countries
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism.
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Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy
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Civilization -- Philosophy
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Civilization -- Western influences
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Nationalism
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Nationalism -- Philosophy
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Fundamentalismus
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Islam
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Nationalismus
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Araber
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Middle East -- Civilization -- Philosophy
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Middle East -- Civilization -- Western influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006037
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Arab countries
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Islamic countries
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Israel
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Middle East
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Turkey
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Naher Osten
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Israel
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Türkei
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1612053920 |
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9781612053929 |
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9781315635545 |
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1315635542 |
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