The Search for Arab Democracy

by Sadiki, Larbi

• ISBN13: 9780231125819
• ISBN10: 023112581X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

-- Michael Hudson

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	vii
Glossary	x
1. Contesting Democracy: Discourses and Counter-discourses	1	(50)
The democratic problematique: absence not presence	3	(3)
Focus and purpose	6	(4)
The democratic debate	10	(8)
Discursive context	18	(17)
Words and Worlds	35	(11)
About this book	46	(5)
2. Defoundationalising Democracy and the Arabo-Islamic Setting	51	(44)
Foundationalism	53	(10)
The ethos of democracy and contestation in the Arabo-Islamic setting	63	(32)
3. Democracy as an Occidentalist Discourse	95	(45)
Definitions and concepts	96	(5)
Rediscovering the West: From a1 Afghani to al-Tahtawi	101	(9)
Islamist counter-discourses and the politics of identity	110	(21)
Imaginings of the "West" and "Democracy" in Islamist discourses	131	(9)
4. Democracy as an Orientalist Discourse	140	(58)
Background	141	(8)
Orientalism in modernist discourses	149	(27)
Said and istishraq	176	(22)
5. Contemporary Arab Conceptions of Democracy	198	(55)
Democracy and freedom: a background	199	(9)
Al-Farabi's virtuous city	208	(10)
Nahdawiyyun: islah without dimuqratiyyah	218	(11)
Dimugratiyyah, hurriyah: a contemporary kaleidoscope	229	(24)
6. Arab Women and Democracy: Breaking Out	253	(67)
Theoretical background	256	(14)
"Male feminism"	270	(3)
Arab women's conceptions of democracy	273	(18)
Feminisation, Islamisation and democratisation	291	(16)
Women and politics in the AME	307	(13)
7. The West and the Sponsoring of Arab Authoritarianism: Islamist Narratives	320	(54)
Islamists against Eurocentncism and Orientalism	322	(10)
Foreign powers in the AME and democracy	332	(32)
Exporting democracy: The Islamist dimension	364	(10)
8. Discoursing Islam and Democracy: Tests and Contests, Texts and Contexts	374	(36)
From test to contest	376	(7)
From text to context	383	(27)
Bibliography	410	(25)
Index	435