Theory, politics and the Arab world: critical responses

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Choice Reviews Online · 1991 · 50 citations · 0 references

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1. The Scholarly Point of View: Politics, Perspective, Paradigm, Hisham Sharabi 2. Policy-Making and Theory Building: American Political Science and the Islamic Middle East, Lisa Abu-Lughod 3. Anthropology's Orient: The Boundaries of Theory on the Arab World, Halim Barakat 4. Beyond the Always and the Never: A Critique of Social-Psychological Interpretations of Arab Society and Culture, Halim Barakat 5. The Contemporary Sociology of the Middle East: An Assessment, Samih Farsoun and Lisa Hajjar 6. Taming the West: Trends in the Writing of Modern Arab Social History in Anglophone Academia, Judith E. Tucker 7. Studies of Anglo-American Political Economy: Democracy, Orientalism and the Left, Peter Gran.