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Title Liberal thought in the Eastern Mediterranean : late 19th century until the 1960s / edited by Christoph Schumann
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 335 pages)
Series Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, 1385-3376 ; v. 104
Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; v. 104.
Contents Introduction / Christoph Schumann -- Part one : the impact of the west : mission, mandate, and education -- Part two : constitutionalism, revolution, and liberal thought -- Part three : liberal thought and its ambivalences
Summary "This volume analyzes liberal thought in the Eastern Mediterranean since the late nineteenth century, highlighting its long-term and ongoing influence, and challenging the conventional wisdom that liberalism has no legitimate place in the region's intellectual discourse."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Liberalism -- Arab countries
Arab nationalism.
Civilization, Arab -- Western influences.
Mandates -- Arab countries
Secularism -- Turkey
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Conservatism & Liberalism.
Arab nationalism
Civilization, Arab -- Western influences
Intellectual life
Liberalism
Mandates
Politics and government
Secularism
Liberalismus
Nationalismus
Einfluss
Islam
SUBJECT Arab countries -- Intellectual life
Arab countries -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006285
Subject Arab countries
Turkey
Naher Osten
Arabische Staaten
Osmanisches Reich
Westliche Welt
Araber.
Form Electronic book
Author Schumann, Christoph
ISBN 9789047442240
9047442245
128260242X
9781282602427
9786612602429
6612602422