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Awakening Islam / Lacroix, Stéphane,  

Público ISBD Hacer una sugerencia de compra Título : Awakening Islam : The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: Lacroix, Stéphane, Número de páginas: 1 online resource(384p.) Il.: illustrations ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-674-06107-1 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Etiquetas: Electronic books  Fundamentalismus  Islam and state  Saudi Arabia  Islam  Islamic fundamentalism  Politik  Religion and politics  Religion, Jewish Studies, Theology  Religion  HISTORY  Modern  20th Century  POLITICAL SCIENCE Clasificación: 320.5/5709538 Resumen: Amidst the roil of war and instability across the Middle East, the West is still searching for ways to understand the Islamic world. Stéphane Lacroix has now given us a penetrating look at the political dynamics of Saudi Arabia, one of the most opaque of Muslim countries and the place that gave birth to Osama bin Laden.The result is a history that has never been told before. Lacroix shows how thousands of Islamist militants from Egypt, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries, starting in the 1950s, escaped persecution and found refuge in Saudi Arabia, where they were integrated into the core of key state institutions and society. The transformative result was the Sahwa, or "Islamic Awakening," an indigenous social movement that blended political activism with local religious ideas. Awakening Islam offers a pioneering analysis of how the movement became an essential element of Saudi society, and why, in the late 1980s, it turned against the very state that had nurtured it. Though the "Sahwa Insurrection" failed, it has bequeathed the world two very different, and very determined, heirs: the Islamo-liberals, who seek an Islamic constitutional monarchy through peaceful activism, and the neo-jihadis, supporters of bin Laden's violent campaign.Awakening Islam is built upon seldom-seen documents in Arabic, numerous travels through the country, and interviews with an unprecedented number of Saudi Islamists across the ranks of today?s movement. The result affords unique insight into a closed culture and its potent brand of Islam, which has been exported across the world and which remains dangerously misunderstood Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility: Public debates surrounding immigration policy, climate change, international relations, and constitutional and human rights are currently at the forefront of our national discourse. Critical reasoning, supported through academic research is needed. As a result, De Gruyter, along with its partner presses, is making freely available books and journal articles across nine topical areas for all students and faculty. Broadening access to this scholarship enables more people to address these issues in an informed manner: it helps us combat false news sources, to consider the nature of truth and ethics, and to understand the struggles of all members of society With unprecedented access to a closed culture, Lacroix offers an account of Islamism in Saudi Arabia. Tracing the last half-century of the Sahwa, or "Islamic Awakening," he explains the brand of Islam that gave birth to Osama bin Laden?one that has been exported, and dangerously misunderstood, around the world En línea: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061071 Link: http://biblio.unvm.edu.ar/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=31262 Awakening Islam : The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia [texto impreso] / Lacroix, Stéphane, . - [s.d.] . - 1 online resource(384p.) : illustrations. ISBN : 978-0-674-06107-1 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Etiquetas: Electronic books  Fundamentalismus  Islam and state  Saudi Arabia  Islam  Islamic fundamentalism  Politik  Religion and politics  Religion, Jewish Studies, Theology  Religion  HISTORY  Modern  20th Century  POLITICAL SCIENCE Clasificación: 320.5/5709538 Resumen: Amidst the roil of war and instability across the Middle East, the West is still searching for ways to understand the Islamic world. Stéphane Lacroix has now given us a penetrating look at the political dynamics of Saudi Arabia, one of the most opaque of Muslim countries and the place that gave birth to Osama bin Laden.The result is a history that has never been told before. Lacroix shows how thousands of Islamist militants from Egypt, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries, starting in the 1950s, escaped persecution and found refuge in Saudi Arabia, where they were integrated into the core of key state institutions and society. The transformative result was the Sahwa, or "Islamic Awakening," an indigenous social movement that blended political activism with local religious ideas. Awakening Islam offers a pioneering analysis of how the movement became an essential element of Saudi society, and why, in the late 1980s, it turned against the very state that had nurtured it. Though the "Sahwa Insurrection" failed, it has bequeathed the world two very different, and very determined, heirs: the Islamo-liberals, who seek an Islamic constitutional monarchy through peaceful activism, and the neo-jihadis, supporters of bin Laden's violent campaign.Awakening Islam is built upon seldom-seen documents in Arabic, numerous travels through the country, and interviews with an unprecedented number of Saudi Islamists across the ranks of today?s movement. The result affords unique insight into a closed culture and its potent brand of Islam, which has been exported across the world and which remains dangerously misunderstood Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility: Public debates surrounding immigration policy, climate change, international relations, and constitutional and human rights are currently at the forefront of our national discourse. Critical reasoning, supported through academic research is needed. As a result, De Gruyter, along with its partner presses, is making freely available books and journal articles across nine topical areas for all students and faculty. Broadening access to this scholarship enables more people to address these issues in an informed manner: it helps us combat false news sources, to consider the nature of truth and ethics, and to understand the struggles of all members of society With unprecedented access to a closed culture, Lacroix offers an account of Islamism in Saudi Arabia. Tracing the last half-century of the Sahwa, or "Islamic Awakening," he explains the brand of Islam that gave birth to Osama bin Laden?one that has been exported, and dangerously misunderstood, around the world En línea: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061071 Link: http://biblio.unvm.edu.ar/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=31262

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Iraq / Dawisha, Adeed  

Público ISBD Hacer una sugerencia de compra Título : Iraq : A Political History Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: Dawisha, Adeed Número de páginas: 1 online resource(408p.) Il.: illustrations ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-1-4008-4623-8 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Etiquetas: Arab World  Culture and History of non-European Territories  History  Political science  Geschichte Asiens  HISTORY  Middle East  General  Modern  20th Century Clasificación: 956.704 Resumen: Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility: Public debates surrounding immigration policy, climate change, international relations, and constitutional and human rights are currently at the forefront of our national discourse. Critical reasoning, supported through academic research is needed. As a result, De Gruyter, along with its partner presses, is making freely available books and journal articles across nine topical areas for all students and faculty. Broadening access to this scholarship enables more people to address these issues in an informed manner: it helps us combat false news sources, to consider the nature of truth and ethics, and to understand the struggles of all members of society With each day that passed after the 2003 invasion, the United States seemed to sink deeper in the treacherous quicksand of Iraq's social discord, floundering in the face of deep ethno-sectarian divisions that have impeded the creation of a viable state and the molding of a unified Iraqi identity. Yet as Adeed Dawisha shows in this superb political history, the story of a fragile and socially fractured Iraq did not begin with the American-led invasion--it is as old as Iraq itself. Dawisha traces the history of the Iraqi state from its inception in 1921 following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and up to the present day. He demonstrates how from the very beginning Iraq's ruling elites sought to unify this ethnically diverse and politically explosive society by developing state governance, fostering democratic institutions, and forging a national identity. Dawisha, who was born and raised in Iraq, gives rare insight into this culturally rich but chronically divided nation, drawing on a wealth of Arabic and Western sources to describe the fortunes and calamities of a state that was assembled by the British in the wake of World War I and which today faces what may be the most serious threat to survival that it has ever known. Featuring Dawisha's insightful new afterword on recent political developments, Iraq is required reading for anyone seeking to make sense of what's going on in Iraq today, and why it has been so difficult to create a viable government there En línea: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400846238 Link: http://biblio.unvm.edu.ar/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=31474 Iraq : A Political History [texto impreso] / Dawisha, Adeed . - [s.d.] . - 1 online resource(408p.) : illustrations. ISBN : 978-1-4008-4623-8 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Etiquetas: Arab World  Culture and History of non-European Territories  History  Political science  Geschichte Asiens  HISTORY  Middle East  General  Modern  20th Century Clasificación: 956.704 Resumen: Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility: Public debates surrounding immigration policy, climate change, international relations, and constitutional and human rights are currently at the forefront of our national discourse. Critical reasoning, supported through academic research is needed. As a result, De Gruyter, along with its partner presses, is making freely available books and journal articles across nine topical areas for all students and faculty. Broadening access to this scholarship enables more people to address these issues in an informed manner: it helps us combat false news sources, to consider the nature of truth and ethics, and to understand the struggles of all members of society With each day that passed after the 2003 invasion, the United States seemed to sink deeper in the treacherous quicksand of Iraq's social discord, floundering in the face of deep ethno-sectarian divisions that have impeded the creation of a viable state and the molding of a unified Iraqi identity. Yet as Adeed Dawisha shows in this superb political history, the story of a fragile and socially fractured Iraq did not begin with the American-led invasion--it is as old as Iraq itself. Dawisha traces the history of the Iraqi state from its inception in 1921 following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and up to the present day. He demonstrates how from the very beginning Iraq's ruling elites sought to unify this ethnically diverse and politically explosive society by developing state governance, fostering democratic institutions, and forging a national identity. Dawisha, who was born and raised in Iraq, gives rare insight into this culturally rich but chronically divided nation, drawing on a wealth of Arabic and Western sources to describe the fortunes and calamities of a state that was assembled by the British in the wake of World War I and which today faces what may be the most serious threat to survival that it has ever known. Featuring Dawisha's insightful new afterword on recent political developments, Iraq is required reading for anyone seeking to make sense of what's going on in Iraq today, and why it has been so difficult to create a viable government there En línea: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400846238 Link: http://biblio.unvm.edu.ar/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=31474

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A Long Goodbye / Kalinovsky, Artemy M.,  

Público ISBD Hacer una sugerencia de compra Título : A Long Goodbye : The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: Kalinovsky, Artemy M., Número de páginas: 1 online resource(320p.) Il.: illustrations ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-674-06104-0 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Etiquetas: Disengagement (Military science)  Geschichte Asiens  General European History  History  Regional History  HISTORY  Modern  20th Century  General  Asia  Central Asia Clasificación: 958.104/5 Resumen: Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility: Public debates surrounding immigration policy, climate change, international relations, and constitutional and human rights are currently at the forefront of our national discourse. Critical reasoning, supported through academic research is needed. As a result, De Gruyter, along with its partner presses, is making freely available books and journal articles across nine topical areas for all students and faculty. Broadening access to this scholarship enables more people to address these issues in an informed manner: it helps us combat false news sources, to consider the nature of truth and ethics, and to understand the struggles of all members of society The conflict in Afghanistan looms large in the collective consciousness of Americans. What has the United States achieved, and how will it withdraw without sacrificing those gains? The Soviet Union confronted these same questions in the 1980s, and Artemy Kalinovsky?s history of the USSR?s nine-year struggle to extricate itself from Afghanistan and bring its troops home provides a sobering perspective on exit options in the region.What makes Kalinovsky?s intense account both timely and important is its focus not on motives for initiating the conflict but on the factors that prevented the Soviet leadership from ending a demoralizing war. Why did the USSR linger for so long, given that key elites recognized the blunder of the mission shortly after the initial deployment?Newly available archival material, supplemented by interviews with major actors, allows Kalinovsky to reconstruct the fierce debates among Soviet diplomats, KGB officials, the Red Army, and top Politburo figures. The fear that withdrawal would diminish the USSR?s status as leader of the Third World is palpable in these disagreements, as are the competing interests of Afghan factions and the Soviet Union?s superpower rival in the West. This book challenges many widely held views about the actual costs of the conflict to the Soviet leadership, and its findings illuminate the Cold War context of a military engagement that went very wrong, for much too long Why did the USSR linger so long in Afghanistan? What makes this account of the Soviet-Afghan conflict both timely and important is its focus on the factors that prevented the Soviet leadership from ending a demoralizing and costly war and on the long-term consequences for the Soviet Union and the region En línea: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061040 Link: http://biblio.unvm.edu.ar/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=31507 A Long Goodbye : The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan [texto impreso] / Kalinovsky, Artemy M., . - [s.d.] . - 1 online resource(320p.) : illustrations. ISBN : 978-0-674-06104-0 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Etiquetas: Disengagement (Military science)  Geschichte Asiens  General European History  History  Regional History  HISTORY  Modern  20th Century  General  Asia  Central Asia Clasificación: 958.104/5 Resumen: Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility: Public debates surrounding immigration policy, climate change, international relations, and constitutional and human rights are currently at the forefront of our national discourse. Critical reasoning, supported through academic research is needed. As a result, De Gruyter, along with its partner presses, is making freely available books and journal articles across nine topical areas for all students and faculty. Broadening access to this scholarship enables more people to address these issues in an informed manner: it helps us combat false news sources, to consider the nature of truth and ethics, and to understand the struggles of all members of society The conflict in Afghanistan looms large in the collective consciousness of Americans. What has the United States achieved, and how will it withdraw without sacrificing those gains? The Soviet Union confronted these same questions in the 1980s, and Artemy Kalinovsky?s history of the USSR?s nine-year struggle to extricate itself from Afghanistan and bring its troops home provides a sobering perspective on exit options in the region.What makes Kalinovsky?s intense account both timely and important is its focus not on motives for initiating the conflict but on the factors that prevented the Soviet leadership from ending a demoralizing war. Why did the USSR linger for so long, given that key elites recognized the blunder of the mission shortly after the initial deployment?Newly available archival material, supplemented by interviews with major actors, allows Kalinovsky to reconstruct the fierce debates among Soviet diplomats, KGB officials, the Red Army, and top Politburo figures. The fear that withdrawal would diminish the USSR?s status as leader of the Third World is palpable in these disagreements, as are the competing interests of Afghan factions and the Soviet Union?s superpower rival in the West. This book challenges many widely held views about the actual costs of the conflict to the Soviet leadership, and its findings illuminate the Cold War context of a military engagement that went very wrong, for much too long Why did the USSR linger so long in Afghanistan? What makes this account of the Soviet-Afghan conflict both timely and important is its focus on the factors that prevented the Soviet leadership from ending a demoralizing and costly war and on the long-term consequences for the Soviet Union and the region En línea: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061040 Link: http://biblio.unvm.edu.ar/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=31507

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