Bøker av Youssef M. Choueiri

By viewing Islamic fundamentalism as a reactive response to modern challenges and political structures, this book presents analysis of how and why Islamic values have become such a potent contemporary political force, and sheds light on a much-misunderstood situation.

This work is a major contribution not only to the study of Arab historiography but to our understanding of modern Arab thought.

A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region. * A fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of the Middle East. * Comprises 26 newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars.