What is the relationship between thought and practice in the domains of language, literature and politics? Is thought the only standard by which to measure inte

This book is a most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East.

Cutting-edge scholarship on post-war Arab intellectual history that challenges conventional thinking about authoritarianism, religion and revolution in the mode

Explores the many facets of Arab political thought from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Leading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.