‘This excellent study is comprehensive, covering a variety of writers from diverse parts of the Arab region whose ideas range from pan-Arabism to more localized identities …This is an important book for students of the modern Arab world and indeed for anyone concerned more broadly with nationalism and modernization.’
CHOICE ‘Corm has produced a magisterial compendium of the Arab ... Read moreintelligentsia and their contributions to Arab thought right up to the Arab Spring.’
Asian Affairs 'Eloquent and... profoundly original.'
The Muslim World Book Review ‘Not since Albert Hourani’s Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age has there been such a comprehensive and accessible monograph as Georges Corm’s erudite account. Focussing on twentieth-century Arabic and French literature, this is a welcome update written by a leading Arab intellectual and economist.’
Jens Hanssen, Associate Professor of Arab Civilization, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilisations, University of Toronto 'An invaluable account of the intellectual currents within the Arab world and beyond, bringing this rich and seminal scholarship closer to us here in the West. Indispensable for those interested in the politics of the region and its underlying fabric of ideas.'
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies at SOAS, University of London, and author of 'On the Arab Revolts and the Iranian Revolution' and 'A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations' 'An overview of the richness and complexity of Arab thought, deconstructing the dominant narratives that reduce the Arab peoples to vacuous, religious and ahistorical binaries. A must-read.'
Fawaz A. Gerges, a Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics 'Draws a comprehensive and detailed framework of Arab political thought... [Arab Political Thought] will help students of International Relations escape the 'Orientalist' trap that creates a stereotype regarding the shared wisdom of the Middle East.' Show Less