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Author: Chibli Mallat (Presidential Professor of Middle Eastern Law and Politics, Presidential Professor of Middle Eastern Law and Politics, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 16.50cm
Weight: 0.717kg
ISBN: 9780199394203
ISBN 10: 0199394202
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 05 March 2015
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Chibli Mallat invites us to think about what has been obscured by the reactionary turn in the ongoing revolutions in the Arab world: the non-violent origins of the revolts, and the possibilities of nonviolent action following violent turns. Structured around the three central themes of revolution, constitutionalism, and justice, he shows the necessary links between strategies, institutional arrangements, and the telos of political change. Moving back and forth between revolutionary France and the present Middle East, and between philosophical discourse and constitutional proposals, Mallat's Philosophy of Nonviolence makes a plea for a fine-grained processual analysis to frame these revolutions, whose significance goes beyond their specific locales to our collective futures. This inspiring and erudite book deserves a wide readership. -John Borneman, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
Chibli Mallat invites us to think about what has been obscured by the reactionary turn in the ongoing revolutions in the Arab world: the non-violent origins of the revolts, and the possibilities of nonviolent action following violent turns. Structured around the three central themes of revolution, constitutionalism, and justice, he shows the necessary links between strategies, institutional arrangements, and the telos of political change. Moving back and forth between revolutionary France and the present Middle East, and between philosophical discourse and constitutional proposals, Mallat's Philosophy of Nonviolence makes a plea for a fine-grained processual analysis to frame these revolutions, whose significance goes beyond their specific locales to our collective futures. This inspiring and erudite book deserves a wide readership. John Borneman, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
Chibli Mallat invites us to think about what has been obscured by the reactionary turn in the ongoing revolutions in the Arab world: the non-violent origins of the revolts, and the possibilities of nonviolent action following violent turns. Structured around the three central themes of revolution, constitutionalism, and justice, he shows the necessary links between strategies, institutional arrangements, and the telos of political change. Moving back and forth between revolutionary France and the present Middle East, and between philosophical discourse and constitutional proposals, Mallat's Philosophy of Nonviolence makes a plea for a fine-grained processual analysis to frame these revolutions, whose significance goes beyond their specific locales to our collective futures. This inspiring and erudite book deserves a wide readership. -John Borneman, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
Chibli Mallat invites us to think about what has been obscured by the reactionary turn in the ongoing revolutions in the Arab world: the non-violent origins of the revolts, and the possibilities of nonviolent action following violent turns. Structured around the three central themes of revolution, constitutionalism, and justice, he shows the necessary links between strategies, institutional arrangements, and the telos of political change. Moving back and forth between revolutionary France and the present Middle East, and between philosophical discourse and constitutional proposals, Mallat's Philosophy of Nonviolence makes a plea for a fine-grained processual analysis to frame these revolutions, whose significance goes beyond their specific locales to our collective futures. This inspiring and erudite book deserves a wide readership. * John Borneman, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University *
Author Information
Chibli Mallat is a lawyer and a law professor. He serves as Presidential Professor of Law and Professor of Law and Politics of the Middle East at the S.J. Quinney School of Law at the University of Utah. He also holds the EU Jean Monnet Chair of European Law at Saint Joseph's University in Lebanon. Professor Mallat has taught law on three continents as: Lecturer in Islamic Law and Director of the Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at SOAS, University of London; Visiting Professor, and Law and Public Affairs fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; Visiting Professor of Law and Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Senior Fellow at Yale Law School; and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques; Visiting Professor of Islamic Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. A prolific author in Arabic, English, and French, he is Chairman of Right to Nonviolence, a Middle East-based NGO active in the fields covered by this book. Amongst his publications are Introduction to Middle Eastern Law (Oxford, 2007), The Renewal of Islamic Law (Cambridge, 1993), The Middle East into the 21st Century (Reading, 1996), Democracy in America (in Arabic, Nahar, Beirut 2001),and Iraq: Guide to Law and Policy (Boston 2009).
