Neopatriarchy a theory of distorted change in Arab society / Hisham Sharabi.

• ocusing on the region of the Arab world--comprising some two hundred million people and twenty-one sovereign states extending from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf--this book develops a theory of social change that demystifies the setbacks this region has experienced on the road totransformation. Professor Sharabi pinpoints economic, political, social, and cultural changes in the last century that led the Arab world, as well as other developing countries, not to modernity but to neopatriarchy--a modernized form of patriarchy. He shows how authentic change was blocked anddistorted forms and practices subsequently came to dominate all aspects of social existence and activity--among them militant religious fundamentalism, an ideology symptomatic of neopatriarchal culture. Presenting itself as the only valid option, Muslim fundamentalism now confronts the elementscalling for secularism and democracy in a bitter battle whose outcome is likely to determine the future of the Arab world as well as that of other Muslim societies in Africa and Asia. 

Ämnesord

Social förändring  (sao)

Sociala strukturer  (sao)

Sociala förhållanden  (sao)

social change  (bnb)

Sociala strukturer  -- Arabstaterna

Social change  (LCSH)

Social structure  (LCSH)

Arabländerna  (sao)

Arab countries  -- Social conditions. (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books.  (local)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Oab-oa Sociala strukturer: Främre Asien

Klassifikation

HN766.A8 (LCC)

306.09174927 (DDC)

Oab-oa (kssb/6)