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Elie Kedourie

Born

in Baghdad, Iraq

January 25, 1926

Died

June 29, 1992

Genre

History, Politics

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Elie Kedourie, CBE, FBA was a British historian of the Middle East. He wrote from a liberal perspective, dissenting from many points of view taken as orthodox in the field. He was at the London School of Economics (LSE) from 1953 to 1990, becoming Professor of Politics.

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Average rating: 3.72 · 236 ratings · 23 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors

	Nationalism 3.69 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1960 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chatham House Version: And Other Middle Eastern Studies 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Democracy and Arab Political Culture (Monograph Series) 3.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Afghani and 'Abduh: An Essay on Religious Unbelief and Political Activism in Modern Islam 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1966 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	England And The Middle East: The Destruction Of The Ottoman Empire, 1914-1921 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1956 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jewish World: Revelation, Prophecy, and History 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1979 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nationalism in Asia and Africa 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1971 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hegel and Marx: Introductory Lectures by Elie Kedourie, Sylvia Kedourie (Editor), Helen Kedourie (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spain and the Jews: The Sephardi Experience, 1492 and After 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Politics in the Middle East 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In the case of the Levant, it is mere question-begging rhetoric to insist that similarities are more fundamental or essential than differences. For who is to say, where human groups and their interestsare in question, what is fundamental and what is secondary, what is essential and what is accidental? And even if the answers were clear, they could not by themselves determine a political decision. Political decisions are not scientific conclusions; they are rather the promptings of the practical judgment, in which play their part inclination and duty, circumstance and foresight.”
― Elie Kedourie, The Chatham House Version: And Other Middle Eastern Studies

tags: decision, difference, future, similarity

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“The prevalent fashion has been to proclaim the latest revolution as the herald of a new day, and the newest turbulence as the necessary and beneficent prelude to an epoch of orderliness and justice.”
― Elie Kedourie, The Chatham House Version: And Other Middle Eastern Studies

tags: disaster, false-beliefs, ideologues, optismism, prophecy, revolution

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“He was clearly out of his depth in Egyptian politics and accepted uncritically the opinion that, as he put it in a telegram, Zaghlul represented the "opinion of majority of Egyptian intellectuals" ; as though "Egyptian intellectuals' were a known or intelligible entity, as though their opinions - whatever they were or however ascertained - had overriding or primordial importance, and as though it made the smallest sense in such a situation to speak - except in the loosest and most misleading manner - of representation or representativeness.”
― Elie Kedourie, The Chatham House Version: And Other Middle Eastern Studies

tags: false, intellectuals, opinion

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