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In the wake of the Arab uprisings, the Middle East descended into a frenzy of political turmoil and unprecedented human tragedy which reinforced regrettable stereotypes about the moribund state of Arab intellectual and cultural life. This volume sheds important light on diverse facets of the post-war Arab world and its vibrant intellectual, literary and political history. Cutting-edge research is presented on such wide-ranging topics as poetry, intellectual history, political philosophy, and religious reform and cultural resilience all across the length and breadth of the Arab world, from Morocco to the Gulf States. This is an important statement of new directions in Middle East studies that challenges conventional thinking and has added relevance to the study of global intellectual history more broadly.

Arab countries --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries --- Middle East --- Intellectual life

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For the millions of citizens in the Arab World who came together in 2010-2011 to discover their common yearning for dignity and liberty, the real revolutions only began after the wave of protests. Understanding the Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings reassess the interests, potential and constraints of various socio-political players and their importance in the building of a constructive environment for democratic progress in the Middle East. Initiated by the Cairo-based Economic Research Forum and edited by Ishac Diwan, this invaluable volume features contributions by Middle East academic

Arab Spring, 2010 --- -Arab Awakening, 2010 --- -Economic aspects. --- Arab countries --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries --- Middle East --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government

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In the second issue of Critical Muslim: Ziauddin Sardar argues why Islamic reform is necessary, Bruce Lawrence sees Muslim cosmopolitanism as the future, Parvez Manzoor declares jihad on the idea of 'the political', Samia Rahman gets to the root of Muslim misogyny, Michael Muhammad Knight explains his taqwacore beliefs, Soha al-Jurf has problems with orthodoxy, Carool Kersten suggests that critical thinkers and reformers are often seen as heretics, and Ben Gidley on what keeps Muslims and Jews apart and what can bring them together. Also in this issue: Stuart Sim takes a sledgehammer to the 'p

Islam --- Protest movements --- Social movements --- History --- Arab countries --- Pakistan --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries --- Middle East --- Politics and government --- Social conditions.

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Die biographischen Indizes, Bestandteil des World Biographical Information System (WBIS), als Register zu den Biographischen Archiven eingeführt, bilden ein selbständiges Rechercheinstrument für biographische Fragestellungen. Jeder Index beinhaltet biographische Kurzeinträge zu Personen einer bestimmten geographischen oder kulturellen Region. Zu jeder angeführten Person werden Namen, Lebensdaten, Beruf und ausgewertete Quellen genannt. Der Arabisch-Islamische Biographische Index enthält Kurzinformationen zu ca. 80.000 Personen von der vorislamischen Zeit bis 1918. Nicht nur Personen, die aus dieser Region stammen, sondern auch Ausländer, die hier gewirkt haben, werden verzeichnet. The biographical indexes, part of the World Biographical Information System (WBIS) and used as indexes for the biographical archives, serve as an independent biographical research tool, with each index containing short biographical entries on individuals relating to a certain biographical or cultural region, and each entry including names, biographical data, professions and evaluated sources.The Arab-Islamic Biographical Index contains summarised information on around 80,000 individuals from the pre-Islamic period until 1918. It includes not only individuals who were born in the region, but also foreigners who were active within it.

AIBI. --- REFERENCE / General. --- Arab countries --- Islamic Empire --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Middle East --- Muslim Empire --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries --- Biography --- History

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The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter, Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was nevertheless not an unmitigated failure, much less an inevitable one. Rather, it was a noble, tragic series of events in which, for the first time in recent Middle Eastern history, Arabic-speaking peoples took free, collective political action as they sought to achieve self-determination. Focusing on the Egyptian revolution and counterrevolution, the Syrian civil war, the rise and fall of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and the Tunisian struggle toward Islamic constitutionalism, Feldman provides an original account of the political consequences of the Arab Spring, including the reaffirmation of pan-Arab identity, the devastation of Arab nationalisms, and the death of political Islam with the collapse of ISIS. He also challenges commentators who say that the Arab Spring was never truly transformative, that Arab popular self-determination was a mirage, and even that Arabs or Muslims are less capable of democracy than other peoples. Above all, The Arab Winter shows that we must not let the tragic outcome of the Arab Spring disguise its inherent human worth. People whose political lives had been determined from the outside tried, and for a time succeeded, in making politics for themselves. That this did not result in constitutional democracy or a better life for most of those affected doesn’t mean the effort didn’t matter. To the contrary, it matters for history—and it matters for the future.

Arab Spring, 2010 --- -Arab Awakening, 2010 --- -Arab countries --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries --- Middle East --- Politics and government