1. Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2006
   An argument against what Collini calls the 'declinist thesis', the belief that contemporary intellectual life is getting increasingly dumbed down and stagnant. Declinists, Collini suggests, are in denial of reality and ignorant of history. Collini also skewers those who, like Edward Said, represent themselves as 'outsiders' while basking in the glamour of in-group recognition.
2. Arab Revolt (1916 - 1918)
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   Was initiated by the Sherif Hussein ibn Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen.
3. Chasing a Mirage
   The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
4. Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   A methodical deconstruction of Edward Said's Orientalism.
   
5. Edward Said, Orientalism
   Reviewed by Malcolm Kerr
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1980
   The book contains many excellent sections and scores many telling points, but it is spoiled by overzealous prosecutorial argument in which Professor Said, in his eagerness to spin too large a web, leaps at conclusions and tries to throw everything but the kitchen sink into a preconceived frame of analysis. In charging the entire tradition of European and American Oriental studies with the sins of reductionism and caricature, he commits precisely the same error.
6. For Lust of Knowing
   The Orientalists and their enemies
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2006
   A rebuttal of Edward Said which examines who the Orientalists were, how historically they advanced their disciplines, and what their achievements have been. Irwin calls Said's book "a work of malignant charlatanry."
7. The Great War and Canadian Society
   An Oral History
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1978
   Recollections of Canadian men and women who lived thorugh the First World War and recall life in the trenches and on the homefront.
8. HAMAS Under the Spotlight
   Against The Current vol. 132
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2008
   In a seemingly dramatic move in mid-2004, Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement which hitherto refused to participate in the Palestinian political system, expressed its willingness to be a part of that system.
9. A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1987
   Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
   
10. The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Arab scholars were exploring and extending the great works of the Persian, Hindu, and Greek civilizations. There were striking advances in the sciences and mathematics, but more fundamentally, the Arabs taught the importance of experimentation and rational thought. Eventually, through the efforts of men like Adelard, the accomplishments of the Arabs got through to the West, and shaped it.
11. How Did It Start?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Every serious debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raises the question: "When did it start?" Each side has its own date, proving that the other side started it.
12. The Iron Cage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    
13. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2014
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
14. Libya
    From Colony to Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Provides the background to the Libyan revolution by discussing its history from colonization up through the 2011 rebellion/foreign intervention that ousted Mu'ammar al-Qadafi.
15. A Marxist History of the World part 22: Arabs, Persians, and Byzantines
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    This week Neil Faulkner describes the rise and explosive spread of the third great monotheistic religion, where compassion, charity, and protection became moral imperatives - Islam.
16. A Marxist History of the World part 23: The Abbasid Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Islam created a single overarching allegiance throughout the Arab-ruled world yet the Middle East came to be a divided region of weak and unpopular states. Neil Faulkner looks at the conflicts that lay behind this process.
17. Qadhafi's Libya
    Resource Type: Book
    The author follows the evolution of a backward tribal society into one of the most militant Arab states, a significant force within OPEC, and a troublesome puzzle for the superpowers. He gives a blow-by-blow account of Colonel Qadhafi's seizure of power and examines the changing nature of his authority within the country. This book provides the facts necessary for an understanding of contemporary Libya and its place in world events.
18. Reading Orientalism
    Said and the unsaid
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    An extensive discussion of Edward Said's influential 1978 polemic 'Orientalism'. Varisco mounts a sustained critique on Said's flawed methodology, his skewed and selective handling of literary evidence, his inadequate historical knowledge, and his distorted and tendentious conclusions.
19. Rethinking The Idea Of 'Christian Europe'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Looking to the traditional, moral and identity platform of Christianity in Europe.
20. Said, Edward, Critical Notes on
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Orientalism,' was confused and sloppy to be point of being unethical.
    
21. Edward Said's shadowy legacy 
    Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) to be true. It discourages any kind of critical approach to Islam in Middle Eastern studies.
22. Top Ten Reasons East Jerusalem does not belong to Jewish-Israelis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    
23. Truth Against Truth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Challenges the myths, conventional lies, and historical falsehoods on which most of the arguments of both Israeli and Palestinian propaganda rest. The truths of both sides are intertwined into one historical narrative that does justice to both. Without this common basis, peace is impossible.
24. Zanj Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A series of revolts by some 500,000 slaves against their Muslim owners and rulers, 869-883 AD.

Experts on Histoire arabe in the Sources Directory

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