TY - BOOK ID - 136740788 TI - Civil Society in the Middle East, Volume 1 PY - 1994 SN - 9789004492592 9789004100374 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Civil society KW - Covenants KW - Islam and politics KW - Political aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136740788 AB - Launched in 1992, the Civil Society in the Middle East program has brought together dozens of leading scholars to analyze political life through an exploration of civil society within the states of the region. This is the first of two volumes to be published by Brill; it contains original studies of Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, Tunisia, the West Bank and Gaza, as well as the prospects for democratization in the Arab world, the consequences of economic liberalization and contemporary Islamic thought on civil society and democracy. This first volume offers a wealth of new material on unions, political parties and professional syndicates, and other components of civil society, as the authors weigh the prospects for political reform in the Middle East, and provide readable yet richly informed assessments of state-society relations. ER -