How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning
nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle East In 2013,
just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the
Egyptian military ousted the country’s first democratically elected
president—Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood—and subsequently
led a brutal repression of the Islamist group. These bloody events
echoed an older political rift in Egypt and the Middle East: the
splitting of nationalists and Islamists during the rule of Egyptian
president and Arab nationalist leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. In Making
the Arab World, Fawaz Gerges, one of the world’s leading authorities
on the Middle East, tells how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism
and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region from the 1920s
to the present. Gerges tells this story through an unprecedented dual
biography of Nasser and another of the twentieth-century Arab
world’s most influential figures—Sayyid Qutb, a leading member of
the Muslim Brotherhood and the father of many branches of radical
political Islam. Their deeply intertwined lives embody and dramatize
the divide between Arabism and Islamism. Yet, as Gerges shows, beyond
the ideological and existential rhetoric, this is a struggle over the
state, its role, and its power. Based on a decade of research,
including in-depth interviews with many leading figures in the story,
Making the Arab World is essential reading for anyone who wants to
understand the roots of the turmoil engulfing the Middle East, from
civil wars to the rise of Al-Qaeda and ISIS.
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ISBN
9781400890071
Publisert
2018
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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