Political Thought and Political History: Studies in Memory of Elie Kedourie

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Introduction: Elie Kedourie as Teacher......Page 10
Notes......Page 12
Part I Philosophy, Political Thought And Ideology......Page 13
1 Schiller’s Theory of Aesthetic Semblance......Page 14
NOTES......Page 23
2 Notes on the Concept of the ‘Civil Condition’......Page 26
NOTES......Page 30
INTRODUCTION......Page 31
LEBANON......Page 33
SYRIA......Page 35
PALESTINE......Page 36
IRAQ......Page 38
CONCLUSION......Page 40
NOTES......Page 42
4 Islam vis-a-vis Communism and Socialism......Page 48
VIEW FROM THE LEFT: ARAB MARXISTS’ APPROACH......Page 49
ARAB SOCIALISM AND ISLAM......Page 51
VIEWS ON ISLAMIC ORTHODOXY AND DISSENTERS......Page 55
THE STATE’S OFFICIAL APPROACH......Page 57
NOTES......Page 59
5 Sun Yat-sen’s Influence on Mu‘ammar Qadhdhafi......Page 63
DEMOCRACY......Page 67
SOCIALISM......Page 69
NATIONALISM......Page 71
NOTES......Page 72
Part II History And Politics......Page 75
6 Vorontsov’s Campaign of 1845: A Reconstruction and Reinterpretation......Page 76
NOTES......Page 88
7 Dating the Past: C.J.Edmonds and the Invention of Modern Iraq......Page 97
NOTES......Page 106
8 Nahhas, the Arab League, and the Postwar Order: a Reinterpretation......Page 108
NOTES......Page 123
9 The Causes of the Failure of Democracy in Iran, 1941–1953......Page 127
INTRODUCTION......Page 128
THE MAJLES AND ITS DEPUTIES......Page 129
Problems related to the constitution......Page 130
The traditional influence of powerful families......Page 131
Problems pertaining to Majles protocol......Page 132
Inefficiencies in the political structure......Page 133
THE BRITISH......Page 134
THE SOVIET UNION AND THE TUDEH PARTY......Page 135
THE SHAH AND HIS ARMY......Page 138
THE AMERICANS......Page 142
CONCLUSION......Page 143
APPENDIX: NATIONALISM AND THE IRANIAN EXPERIENCE......Page 148
NOTES......Page 151
PRELIMINARY STEPS......Page 158
FORMULATING THE ARAB STRATEGY IN THE CONFLICT......Page 162
Diversion of Tributaries in Lebanon......Page 170
The plan in Jordan......Page 171
CONCLUSION......Page 172
NOTES......Page 174
11 Elie Kedourie’s Teaching of Middle Eastern History......Page 177
NOTES......Page 184
Index......Page 185