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Title: | Understanding Arab Social Movements |
Author: | Burke, Edmund |
Year: | 1986 |
Periodical: | Maghreb Review |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January-February |
Pages: | 19-25 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Maghreb Egypt |
Subjects: | political action history 1700-1799 1800-1899 1900-1999 nationalism Politics and Government History and Exploration |
Abstract: | An examination of the historical praxis of protest and resistance in the Arab world over the 'long 19th century' (1750-1925) reveals that protest was far from insignificant and that the demands of the protesters were often taken seriously by the authorities. This paper analyses the changing patterns of protest in the Arab world, paying particular attention to the actions of the crowd. It focuses on a few movements: the several Cairo and Damascus urban protest movements of the period 1750-1830, the Tunisian uprising of 1864, the Moroccan rebellions of 1907-1912, and, more generally, the rebellions of the post-World War I period. The analysis suggests that if there was a moral economy of protest in the Arab world, then it was expressed not only in the language of the 'ulama' and works of 'fiqh', but also in the language of Islamic notions of justice freely available to all. Notes, ref. |