[PDF.23fq] The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs

The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs

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 | #2887004 in Books |  2002-01-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.40 x1.25 x6.58l, | File type: PDF | 480 pages

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||23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.| A profound analysis|By A curious reader|Pryce-Jones' book, reissued in 2002, is the best book I've read on the contemporary Middle East, and one of the best books I've ever read, period. (This includes great books by Fouad Ajami and Bernard Lewis.)

If supposedly informed people in the West understood Pryce-Jones' points about the Arab social order centered on clan|From Publishers Weekly|Following the end of colonial rule in the Middle East, the newly independent Arab nations did not become progressive and free: they are despotic; most persecute religious or ethnic minorities; all oppress women; none has participatory inst

This important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions. David Pryce-Jones examines the tribal forces which, he believes, drive the Arabs in their dealings with each other and with the West. In the postwar world, he argues, the Arabs reverted to age-old tribal and kinship structures, a closed circle from which they have been unable to escape, and in which violence is systemic. A healthy corrective, a thought-pro...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs   |  David Pryce-Jones. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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