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Metamorphosis of the Nation (al-Umma)
Kais M Firro
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Hardcover. Tracing the development in the usage of terms related to collective identities, this study shows that Arabic print language, education and press rooted the usage of al-umma to signify several connotations in accordance to its user, creating perplexity for defining al-umma. Num Pages: 201 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 1FBS; HBJF1; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
Studies on nationalism in the "Arab World" have dealt with the socio-economic conditions through which the nationalist phenomena emerged. Notwithstanding the importance of these conditions, the focus here is on the cultural aspects as manifested in the language of the discourse and ideology. Proto-nationalist and nationalist phenomena could not exist outside their discourse and ideology through which they were modelled, shaped and identified as a conceptual framework through association, behavioural patterns, and loyalty to collective identities. Theorists of nationalism tend to deal with the terms nation, nationalism as givens without specifying the exact time and place in which the terms ... Read more
Studies on nationalism in the "Arab World" have dealt with the socio-economic conditions through which the nationalist phenomena emerged. Notwithstanding the importance of these conditions, the focus here is on the cultural aspects as manifested in the language of the discourse and ideology. Proto-nationalist and nationalist phenomena could not exist outside their discourse and ideology through which they were modelled, shaped and identified as a conceptual framework through association, behavioural patterns, and loyalty to collective identities. Theorists of nationalism tend to deal with the terms nation, nationalism as givens without specifying the exact time and place in which the terms ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
Number of Pages
201
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845193164
SKU
V9781845193164
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About Kais M Firro
Kais M Firro is Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa.
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