Arab Liberal Thought after 1967

This volume aims at confronting the image of the Middle East as a region that is fraught with totalitarian ideologies, authoritarianism and conflict. It gives voice and space to other, more liberal and adaptive narratives and discourses that endorse the right to dissent, question the status quo, and offer alternative visions for society.

"This innovative work provides an important perspective of how liberal thought and Islamic practice interacts in Middle Eastern life. The nuanced examination of the variety of liberal expression is a must read for anyone interested in understanding how abstract liberal principles are contextualized to expand freedom and democracy in the Middle East." M. Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah, USA

"While many scholars assume liberal discourse, values, and norms have disappeared or are irrelevant to Arab societies and cultures, [this volume shows] clearly the opposite: that there exists a broad corpus of literature dealing seriously and comprehensively with liberal values, principles, policies, and strategies. This is a truly extraordinary contribution to a more balanced picture of what is really going on in the contemporary Middle East, particularly after 1967." - Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University, Israel

"This profoundly humanistic collection of essays reviews the many-faceted nature of liberalism in the post-1967 Arab Middle East, from both secular and 'Islamic' perspectives. The unsettling nature of new ideas and new discourses about liberalism, democracy, and human rights is clearly visible from the vigorous attempts to silence them on the part of regimes whose authoritarianism has alas not yet been quashed by the popular uprisings that have taken place since 2011." Peter Sluglett, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore.

Autorentext
Wael Abu-'Uksa, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel Lutz Berger, Kiel University, Germany Michaelle Browers, Wake Forest University, USA Asher Cohen, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Meir Hatina, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Sune Haugbølle, Roskilde University, Denmark Moshe Hellinger, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Roel Meijer, Radboud University, Netherlands Thomas Philipp, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Clemens Recker, Heidelberg University, Germany Mathias Rohe, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Christoph Schumann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Manfred Sing, Leibniz Institute for European History, Germany Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Inhalt

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
Christoph Schumann 1969-2013; Thomas Philipp
Introduction; Meir Hatina
PART I: LIBERALISM IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST

1. Arab Liberal Thought in Historical Perspective; Meir Hatina
2. Liberalization and Democratization in the Arab World: A Conceptual Critique; Christoph Schumann
3. Liberalism in the Middle East and the Issue of Citizenship Rights; Roel Meijer
4. Making Sense of Turkish Liberalism; Lutz Berger
   PART II: CULTURAL CRITIQUE
5. Liberal Renewal of the Turath: Constructing the Egyptian Past in Sayyid al-Qimni's Works; Wael Abu-'Uksa
6. Nasif Nassar and the Quest for a Second Arab Nahda; Clemens Recker
7. From 'New Partisans of the Heritage' to Post-Secularism: Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Development of Arab Liberal Communitarian Thought in the 1980s; Michaelle Browers
   PART III: LIBERAL VALUES ACROSS IDEOLOGICAL CAMPS
8. Arab Post-Marxists after Disillusionment: Between Liberal Newspeak and Revolution Reloaded; Manfred Sing
9. Ziad al-Rahbani and the Liberal Subject; Sune Haugbølle
10. The Ambivalent Embrace of Liberalism: The Draft Program of the Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt; Mathias Rohe and Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen
11. Liberal-Democratic Jewish Modern Orthodoxy after 1967: The Thought of David Hartman and Rabbi Hayyim David Halevi; Moshe Hellinger and Asher Cohen
    Bibliography
    List of Contributors
    Index