The nature of tyranny : and the devastating results of oppression / Abdul Rahman Al-Kawakibi ; translated by Amer Chaikhouni ; foreword by Leon T. Goldsmith.
Language: English Original language: Arabic Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: London : Hurst & Company, 2021Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 145 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197650226Subject(s): Despotism
| Politics and Government | Politics & governmentAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197631959DDC classification: 321.9 LOC classification: JC381Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 'The Nature of Tyranny' was written and published at the dawn of the twentieth century by Abdul Rahman Al-Kawakibi, one of the pioneering thinkers of the Arab world. More than a century later, another Arab awakening exploded, led by a new generation of youth who chanted Al-Kawakibi's words in revolutionary cries from Aleppo, his hometown, to Cairo's Tahrir Square. Today this seminal text appears in English for the first time, with a foreword from Leon T. Goldsmith offering an overview of Al-Kawakibi's intellectual contributions.
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Translated from the Arabic.
Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references.
'The Nature of Tyranny' was written and published at the dawn of the twentieth century by Abdul Rahman Al-Kawakibi, one of the pioneering thinkers of the Arab world. More than a century later, another Arab awakening exploded, led by a new generation of youth who chanted Al-Kawakibi's words in revolutionary cries from Aleppo, his hometown, to Cairo's Tahrir Square. Today this seminal text appears in English for the first time, with a foreword from Leon T. Goldsmith offering an overview of Al-Kawakibi's intellectual contributions.
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