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The Contemporary Middle Eastern Scene

Basic Issues and Major Trends

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  • © 1979

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Editors:
  1. Gustav Stein

    1. Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Udo Steinbach

    1. Deutsches Orient-Institut, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany

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Part of the book series: Schriften des Deutschen Orient - Instituts (ORIENT)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-8
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  3. Economic Development, Ideological Trends and Social Evolution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Economic Development in the Non-Oil-Producing Arab Countries

      • Zvi Yehuda Hershlag
      Pages 43-58

    3. Israel’s “New Economic Order”

      • Michael Wolffsohn
      Pages 59-83

    4. The Social Background of Ideologies in the Arab Middle East

      • Bassam Tibi
      Pages 84-93

    5. The Iraqi Ba’th after ten Years of Power — the Challenges of Dogma and Pragmatism

      • Uriel Dann
      Pages 94-96

    6. “Right” and “Left” in Lebanon

      • Kamal S. Salibi
      Pages 97-103

    7. Social Change in the Arab Countries: Motives and Thrusts

      • C. A. O. van Nieuwenhuijze
      Pages 104-111

    8. Trends towards Retraditionalization in Egypt

      • Friedemann Büttner
      Pages 112-117

  4. Religious and Cultural Elements in the Arab and Israeli Identity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. The Relevancy of Islam in Arab National Identity

      • Detlev Khalid
      Pages 121-127

    3. Problems of Confessionalism in Syria

      • Itamar Rabinovich
      Pages 128-132

    4. Attitudes towards Islam

      • Elie Rekhess
      Pages 133-137

    5. Experience into Fiction: Israeli Writers on Jewish-Arab Relations (The Case of Hasût by Sammy Michael)

      • Haim Shaked
      Pages 138-149

    6. Social Problems in Contemporary Arab Literature

      • Stefan Wild
      Pages 150-153

    7. The Palestine Conflict as Reflected in Contemporary Arabic Literature

      • Werner Ende
      Pages 154-167
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About this book

The contributions to this volume are based on papers read at an international confer­ ence held in Hamburg in May 1978. Some of them are reprinted in their original form, others have been slightly modified in order to incorporate more recent findings. Since the overall concern is Middle Eastern development the various contributions deal with a wide range of problems. Studies on the Middle East are more often than not one-sided because of the pre­ dominating interest in the Arab-Israeli conflict and the economic factors relating to the supply of oil. At the Hamburg Conference, however, the participants concentrated main­ lyon examining such aspects of the situation as are far too often relegated to the side­ lines. In order to illustrate what those neglected topics are one should refer to two major examples: 1) the religio-cultural identity of Arabs and Israelis, 2) the tackling of political issues in Arab and Israeli literature.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hamburg, Germany

    Gustav Stein

  • Deutsches Orient-Institut, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany

    Udo Steinbach

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Contemporary Middle Eastern Scene

  • Book Subtitle: Basic Issues and Major Trends

  • Editors: Gustav Stein, Udo Steinbach

  • Series Title: Schriften des Deutschen Orient - Instituts

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-97145-6

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-322-97147-0Published: 03 July 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-322-97145-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 192

  • Topics: Political Science

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