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Freedom in the Arab world
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ISBN: 1316728501 1316728706 1316728900 1316729109 1316729702 1316676188 110716124X 1316613828 9781107161245 1316727300 9781316729106 9781316676189 9781316729700 9781316613825 9781316728505 9781316728703 9781316728901 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom

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A preoccupation with the subject of freedom became a core issue in the construction of all modern political ideologies. Here, Wael Abu-'Uksa examines the development of the concept of freedom (hurriyya) in nineteenth-century Arab political thought, its ideological offshoots, their modes, and their substance as they developed the dynamics of the Arabic language. Abu-'Uksa traces the transition of the idea of freedom from a term used in a predominantly non-political way, through to its popularity and near ubiquity at the dawn of the twentieth century. Through this, he also analyses the importance of associated concepts such as liberalism, socialism, progress, rationalism, secularism, and citizenship. He employs a close analysis of the development of the language, whilst at the same time examining the wider historical context within which these semantic shifts occurred: the rise of nationalism, the power of the Ottoman court, and the state of relations with Europe.

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