Why are the Arabs not free? : the politics of writing / Moustapha Safouan.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.Description: xvii, 106 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781405161718 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 140516171X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Critical quarter. Special number.
- 320.17/4927 22
- DS39 .S237 2007
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Books | CUTN Central Library Generalia | 320.17/4927 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 10334 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Components of Western dominance -- 2. Questions that have been forgotten in our political philosophy -- 3. Creative transmission and stagnant transmission : culture and power -- 4. Peoples and writers -- 5. The role of language in the creation of culture -- 6. Writing and power -- 7. The fraud of the Islamic state.
"Moustapha Safouan confronts head-on the problem of Arab despotism, examining it from the point of view of political philosophy, religious argument and linguistic history. Safouan's impassioned argument to his fellow Arabs is that if they wish to realise the potential of their great culture, they must follow the linguistic lead of the European Reformation and develop their currently despised vernaculars as written languages."--BOOK JACKET.
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