ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: SOCIETY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Volume 12
MAN, STATE, AND SOCIETY IN THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST
MAN, STATE, AND SOCIETY IN THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST
Edited by
JACOB M. LANDAU
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Man, State, and Society in the Contemporary Middle East
EDITED BY
Jacob M. Landau
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CONTENTS
Edward Atiyah
Abd al-Rahmn al-Bazzz
Abd al-Nasir (Gamal Abdel Nasser)
J.C. Hurewitz
Naseer H. Aruri
Kamel S. Abu Jaber
Emanuel Gutmann
Scott D. Johnston
Oles M. Smolansky
Moshe Sharett
Jacob M. Landau
The Mission of the American Professors for Peace in the Middle East
Abba Eban
Gabriel Baer
Pierre Rondot
Ibrahim Abu Lughod
S. N. Eisenstadt
Fahim I. Qubain
Toufic Toma
Mahmd Taymr
Peter C. Dodd
Daniel Lerner
Malcolm N. Quint
Ms Alam
Claudie Fayein
Marie Karam Khayat and Margaret Clark Keatinge
John Gulick
Zeev Goldberg
Aliza Lwenberg
Emanuel Marx
MAPS
The Middle East, 1970
In the context of this book, the term contemporary refers to the post-World War II period. Hence, not all readings in this volume are strictly limited to the present day; however, they have been so selected as to reflect on matters of topical significance wherever possible. Middle East refers solely to the area between Egypt and Iraq, including Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and the Arabian Peninsula, but excluding the Maghrib, which is dealt with by I. William Zartman in a companion volume in the same series.
Diplomatic documents have not been included, because the reader may easily find the more important ones in Hurewitzs collection
Any choice of material unavoidably reflects the views and tastes of the editor. Considering the complexity of the problems in the area and the wide scope of the subjectman, state, and society in the contemporary Middle Eastno such selection can even remotely aspire to be exhaustive. (It is hoped that the notes and the Bibliography may partly compensate for these shortcomings.) At most, it can aim at being as representative as possible, within the range of the available material. While it is patently impossible to find precisely the same type of readings for every state in the area (nor, perhaps, is this desirable), an attempt has been made to give the reader a fairly balanced picturethat is, to touch on every state and on some of the more characteristic issues. Political trends, social conditions, and human relations have been of primary concern in the selection of the readings. Despite the division of this book into two parts, these elements may be found, sometimes unavoidably intermingled, in both.
In his difficult enterprise, a compiler is, unhappily, often compelled to discard much that he would have liked to include, in order to reach a mean between the pertinent and the interesting. Preference has been given here to both personal accounts and scholarly works. These have been selected with the intelligent, curious reader in mind, although it is hoped that students of the sociopolitics of the contemporary Middle East, too, may find some interest in it. The correct transliteration of Arabic and Hebrew words will be found in the various introductions and in the index. The selections themselves generally employ more frequently used forms to facilitate fluent reading.
I gratefully acknowledge reprinting permissions from publishers and authors; credits are given with each item. My thanks to colleagues and friends who have assisted me with their good advice and to Lon King and Lois Wyvell, both of Praeger Publishers, who have shown considerable patience and have helped throughout. I have enjoyed working with them all.
January, 1972
NOTES
. J. C. Hurewitz, Diplomacy in the Near and Middle East (2 vols., Princeton, N.J.: 1956). A revised, 2d edition is in the press.
. A. J. Peaslee, Constitutions of Nations (4 vols., 3d ed., The Hague: 196569).
. H. M. Davis, Constitutions, Electoral Laws, Treaties of States in the Near and Middle East (rev. ed., Durham, N.C.: 1953).
. A. A. al-Marayati, Middle Eastern Constitutions and Electoral Laws (New York: 1968).
. J. E. Godchot, Les constitutions du Proche et du Moyen-Orient (Paris: 1957).
. Amedeo Giannini, Le costituzioni degli stati del Vicino Oriente (Rome: 1931), and Nuove costituzioni degli stati del Vicino Oriente e dellAfrica (Milan: 1954). For an over-all survey, see the article Dustr in the second edition of The Encyclopaedia of Islam.
. K. H. Karpat, ed., Political and Social Thought in the Contemporary Middle East (New York: 1968). See my review in Middle Eastern Studies (London), VI (1): January, 1970, pp. 11112.
Man, State, and Society in the Contemporary Middle East
The Middle East, even in the selective use of the term that I specified in the Preface, is a diverse region and frequently defies generalization. It is better approached by country or by political and social phenomena peculiar to a subregion of the area.
