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090			_aDS 36.88 .B36 1993
100	1		_aBarakat, Halim Isber. _96852
245	1	4	_aThe Arab world : _bsociety, culture, and state / _cHalim Barakat.
260			_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _c1993.
300			_axiii, 348 p. ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 317-325) and index
520		0	_aThis wide-ranging examination of Arab society and culture offers a unique opportunity to know the Arab world from an Arab point of view. Halim Barakat, an expatriate Syrian who is both scholar and novelist, emphasizes the dynamic changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-nineteenth century.
520	8	0	_aThe Arab world is not one shaped by Islam, nor one simply explained by reference to the sectarian conflicts of a "mosaic" society. Instead, Barakat reveals a society that is highly complex, with many and various contending polarities. It is a society in a state of becoming and change, one whose social contradictions are at the root of the struggle to transcend dehumanizing conditions. Arguing from a perspective that is both radical and critical, Barakat is committed to the improvement of human conditions in the Arab world.
650		0	_aCivilisation, Arab _y20th century. _959311
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