Middle Eastern Lectures -3

by Martin S. Kramer (Editor)

In this collection of essays Farhad Kazemi and Olivier Roy consider the remarkable election of Mohammad Khatami as Iran's president, Fred Halliday looks at the Middle of nationalism., Johannes J.G. Jansen Islamic fundamentalism to its Christian Jewish counterparts, and Allastair Hamilton reviews Enlightenment scholarship on Islam.

130 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1999

Reviews

[Laçin Tutalar · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish my college professors had made us read this volume. From 1999, several notes and arguments in this edited collection are still meaningful in 2017. The meaning of law, morals and ethics; political change in waves as felt as actual changes rather than material for dull political analyses; desires and wonts of the youth, the excluded, the elite; Europe's umbilical cords with an Orient that was written to 'sell' to a specific audience; reading works of art and so much more details I had missed in my readings on the Middle East years ago. Even classes in graduate level missed some of these tiny twists while focusing on 'actualities'. The essays in this book are alive and substantial, yet quite humble. I like how this reading was far from pretentious lecturing on power relations in the Middle East.