Ethnicity, Pluralism, and the State in the Middle East

Published by Cornell University Press 1988

Ethnicity, Pluralism, and the State in the Middle East

Edited by: Milton J. Esman and Itamar Rabinovich

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745751

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About this book

A timely and innovative discussion of the role that ethnicity plays in contemporary Middle Eastern affairs, Ethnicity, Pluralism, and the State in the Middle East is the first systematic exploration of this important dimension in the social life, statecraft, politics, and international relations in the region.

Author / Editor information

Milton J. Esman is Professor of Government at Cornell University. Itamar Rabinovich is Ettinger Professor of Contemporary Middle Easter History and Director of the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part I. Nationalism and Ethnicity
1. The Study of Ethnic Politics in the Middle East Milton J. Esman and Itamar Rabinovich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Ethnicity, Majority, and Minority in the Middle East Elie Kedourie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Part II. Legacies of the Past
3. The Ottoman Ethnic and Confessional Legacy in the Middle East Kemal Karpat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
4. Non-Muslims in Muslim Society: A Preliminary Consideration of the Problem on the Basis of Recent Published Works by Muslim Authors P. J. Vatikiotis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
5. Ethnopolitics and the Middle Eastern State Gabriel Ben-Dor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Part III. The Israeli Scene and the Palestinians
6. The Different Levels of Palestinian Ethnicity Aziz Haidar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
7. Jews and Arabs in the Israeli Communist Party Elie Rekhess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
8. Political Ethnicity as a Socially Constructed Reality: The Case of Jews in Israel Hanna Herzog Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Part IV. The Syrian-Lebanese Complex
9. Arab Political Parties: Ideology and Ethnicity Itamar Rabinovich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
10. Homo Oeconomicus-Homo Communitaris: Crosscutting Loyalties in a Deeply Divided Society: The Case of Trade Unions in Lebanon Theodor Hanf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
11. The Druze in and between Syria, Lebanon, and Israel Kais Firro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
PART V. THE IRANIAN SCENE
12. Ethnicity and the Iranian Peasantry Farhad Kazemi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
13. Khomeini's Policy toward Ethnic and Religious Minorities David Menashri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Part VI. Iraq and the Sudan
14. The Kurdish Question in the 1980s Charles G. MacDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
15. The Ethnic Factor in Sudanese Politics: South vs. North Haim Shaked and Yehudit Ronen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
PART VII. CONCLUSION
16. Ethnic Politics: How Unique Is the Middle East? Milton J. Esman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 6 tables, 1 map
Keywords: Political Science & Political History; Middle East Studies

eBook

Published: May 15, 2019
ISBN: 9781501745751