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Justice interrupted : the struggle for constitutional government in the Middle East / Elizabeth F. Thompson.

Author/creator Thompson, Elizabeth, 1959-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxi, 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Contents Part I: The rise of a constitutional model of justice, 1839-1920 -- Mustafa Ali: Ottoman justice and bureaucratic reform -- Tanyus Shahin of Mount Lebanon: peasant republic and Christian rights -- Ahmad Urabi and Nizam al-Islam: a new model of justice in Egypt and Iran -- Part II: Movements for local and collective models of justice, 1920-1965 -- Halide Edib, Turkey's Joan of Arc: the fate of liberalism after World War I -- David Ben-Gurion and Musa Kazim in Palestine: genocide and justice for the nation -- Hasan al-Banna of Egypt: the Muslim Brothers? -- Pursuit of Islamic justice -- Comrade Fahd: the mass appeal of communism in Iraq -- Akram al-Hourani and the Baath Party in Syria: bringing peasants into politics -- Part III: Struggles for justice in the absence of a political arena after 1965 -- Abu Iyad: the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the turn to political violence -- Sayyid Qutb and Ali Shariati: the idea of Islamic revolution in Egypt and Iran -- Wael Ghonim of Egypt: the Arab Spring and the return of universal rights -- Chronology.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 394-401) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012039279
ISBN9780674073135 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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