Description
| Product ID: | 9781787385481 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Nature of Tyranny |
| Subtitle: | And the Devastating Results of Oppression |
| Authors: | Author: Abdul Rahman Al-Kawakibi |
| Page Count: | 152 |
| Subjects: | Politics and government, Politics & government, Political oppression and persecution, Political oppression & persecution, Middle East |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. The first chapter of the text provides a definition of tyranny, presenting it as akin to a sickness or malaise that seeps into all classes of society, leaving behind decay. The following seven chapters apply this conception of tyranny to what Al-Kawakibi sees as society's crucial elements: religion, knowledge, honour, economy, ethics and progress. Having laid a theoretical framework for understanding the centrality of tyranny, its characteristics and its devastating effects, Al-Kawakibi concludes by setting forth a brief programme for remedying the 'disease' of tyranny. The final chapter outlines another book in which he had planned to elaborate upon his ideas-but, ultimately, his fate arrived too soon. |
| Imprint Name: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-12-02 |
