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ABC’s Nightline
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Arab Jews
Arab Nationalist
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Belly Dancers
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civilizational narratives
colonial
Colonial Modernity
Colonizer's Insistence
Colonizer’s Insistence
Disney World's Epcot Center
Disney World’s Epcot Center
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Farid Al Atrash
gender and nationalism
Hichem Djait
Honor Killing
Incest Crime
Jordanian Nationalists
Kemal Ataturk
Middle Eastern Ancient Civilizations
modernity
modernization discourse
Muhammad Husayn Haykal
Muslim World
nationalists
orientalism critique
Orientalist Categories
postcolonial theory
Sayyid Qutb
script
Secular Arab Nationalists
secularism in Middle East
shariati
Taha Husayn
template
temporal
temporal narratives in identity formation
Temporal Script
Temporal Template
theodor
Time Machine Idea
Young Men
Ziya Gokalp
Product details
- ISBN 9781594516986
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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To understand the Middle East we must also understand how the West produced a temporal narrative of world history in which westemers placed themselves on top and all others below them. In a landmark reinterpretation of Middle Eastern history, this book shows how Arabs, Muslims, Turks, and Jews absorbed, revised, yet remained loyal to this Western vision. Turkish Kemalism and Israeli Zionism, in their efforts to push their people forward, accepted the narrative almost wholeheartedly, eradicating what they perceived as 'archaic' characteristics of their Jewish and Turkish cultures. Arab nationalists negotiated a more culturally schizophrenic approach to appeasing the colonizer's gaze. But so too, Samman argues, did the Islamists who likewise wanted to improve their societies. But in order to modernize, Islamists prescribed the eradication of Western contamination and reintroduced the prophetic stage that they believe - if the colonizer and their local Arab coconspirators hadn't intervened - would have produced true civilization. Samman's account explains why Islamists broke more radically with the colonizer's insult. For all these nationalists gender would be used as the measuring device of how well they did in relation to the colonizer's gaze.
