2002 1st ed. thus. 464pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good+ [text is age browned; else a nice clean and uncreased copy] Cover praise for this examination of the way Arab societies work from David Shipler, Elie Kedourie, Daniel Pipes, Amos Elon, et al.

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Titre

The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs with a New Preface by the author

�diteur

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee

Date de parution

2001

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

1566634407

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9781566634403

Reliure

Soft cover

�dition

1st Edition

�tat de l'article

Very Good

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Middle East

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As the violence of the Middle East has come to America with the September 11 2001 bombings, many Westerners are stunned and confounded by this new form of mayhem that appears to be a feature of Arab societies. This text explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious and cultural traditions. Pryce-Jones examines the forces which "drive the Arabs in their dealings with each other and with the West". In the post-war world, he argues, the Arabs reverted to age-old tribal and kinship structures, from which they have been unable to escape. In tribal society, loyalty is extended to close kin and other members of the tribe. The successful nation-state - the model that Westerners understand - generates broader loyalties, but the tribal world has no institutions that have evolved by common consent for the general good. Those who seek power achieve it by plotting secretly and ruthlessly eliminating their rivals.

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