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082 0 0 _a956
_220
_bS.H.T
245 0 0 _aTheory, politics, and the Arab world :
_bcritical responses /
_cedited by Hisham Sharabi.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c1990.
300 _aix, 261 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"The papers were presented at a faculty study group held at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, during the academic year 1987-88"--Pref.
500 _a"Published in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University"--T.p verso.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _a1. The Scholarly Point of View: Politics, Perspective, Paradigm, Hisham Sharabi 2. Policy-Making and Theory Building: American Political Science and the Islamic Middle East, Lisa Abu-Lughod 3. Anthropology's Orient: The Boundaries of Theory on the Arab World, Halim Barakat 4. Beyond the Always and the Never: A Critique of Social-Psychological Interpretations of Arab Society and Culture, Halim Barakat 5. The Contemporary Sociology of the Middle East: An Assessment, Samih Farsoun and Lisa Hajjar 6. Taming the West: Trends in the Writing of Modern Arab Social History in Anglophone Academia, Judith E. Tucker 7. Studies of Anglo-American Political Economy: Democracy, Orientalism and the Left, Peter Gran.
520 _aChallenging established thinking about the Middle East, and informed by post-modern, neo-Marxist and feminist theory, these essays argue that the political concerns of the West and stereotypical ways of viewing Islam have influenced the way the Arabs have been treated in Western thinking
651 4 _aArab countries
_xStudy and teaching
_xPhilosophy.
_915097
700 1 0 _aSharabi, Hisham,
_d1927-2005.
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710 2 0 _aGeorgetown University.
_bCenter for Contemporary Arab Studies.
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942 _cBK
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