Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus 1860-1920

by Edmund Burke III and Philip S. Khoury

No idea has captured the imagination or expressed the hopes of Arabs in the twentieth century as has Arab nationalism, and perhaps no subject has received so much attention from historians of the Middle East. But, while many historians have explored its intellectual sources, few have considered the social and political environment in which Arab nationalism evolved as an ideological movement. This study attempts to correct the imbalance and, in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521533236
• ISBN13: 9780521533232
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 8.5"