Overview
- Offers detailed accounts of Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel in the 1970s, focusing on ways the identity, political culture, and institutional character of each group is shaped by its status as a religious minority in a non-secular state
- Compares the three communities in the Middle East offering insights into how the character and behavior of a religious minority is shaped by its political environment
- Considers the nature and implications of religious minorities responses to different circumstances, focusing on community and individual levels of analysis and original public opinion surveys
Part of the book series: Minorities in West Asia and North Africa (MWANA)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Typologies and Theory: Some Comparisons Among Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel
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The Context: Religion, Politics, and Conflict in the Middle East in the 1970s
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Jews in Tunisia and Morocco: Two Small Mobilized Minorities
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Israel’s Arab Citizens: A Large Proletarian Minority
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Reviews
“In this volume Mark Tessler revisits work he did in the last three decades of the twentieth century that focused especially on Jewish minorities in Tunisia and Morocco and the Arab minority in Israel, but was engaged as well with the shock that religious revivalism delivered to the expectations of modernization theorists. We see how a skilled, sensitive, and caring scholar, delivered on his commitment to understand the Middle East by taking seriously the opinions and attitudes of ordinary people who live there. Tessler’s career has been devoted to building bridges, not only between Jews and Muslims, and Arabs and Israelis, but also between area specialists and social scientists. Across each divide the message is the same: the world is changing, each group has more in common with the other than they prefer to think, and all would be better off living and working in mutual respect than in stigmatized disdain.” (Ian Lustick, Professor and Bess W. Heyman Chair, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
“A leading political scientist of the Middle East and North Africa, Mark Tessler compiles extensive field research and writings from the 1970s and 80s addressing Jews in Tunisia and Morocco and Arabs in Israel – issues that remain relevant today. These are not only detailed narratives of the dilemmas of important communities at critical times of transition, but they also offer penetrating scholarly insights that become much clearer when one reads them together; and the historical perspective, provides a better assessment of the utility of such notions as ‘religious minorities in non-secular states. The reader will find the volume thought-provoking, and Tessler’s own reflective assessment in the conclusion analytically engaging and helpful for thinking about the issue of minorities in the region. Worth reading.” (Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religious Minorities in Non-Secular Middle Eastern and North African States
Authors: Mark Tessler
Series Title: Minorities in West Asia and North Africa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19843-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19842-8Published: 30 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19845-9Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19843-5Published: 19 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-4250
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4269
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 469
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Middle Eastern Politics, African Politics, Comparative Politics, Political History, Politics and Religion