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Social Change in the Arab Countries: Motives and Thrusts

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This paper is meant to contribute to a discussion of the understanding of social change in one particular setting, namely the Arab countries, also called the Arab nation. It is prompted by the realization that, rather than speaking of understanding in the singular, one should, more realistically, speak of understandings.

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  1. N. Daniel, The Cultural Barrier, Problems in the Exchange of Ideas, Edinburgh (U. P.) 1975

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© 1979 Leske Verlag + Budrich GmbH, Opladen

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van Nieuwenhuijze, C.A.O. (1979). Social Change in the Arab Countries: Motives and Thrusts. In: Stein, G., Steinbach, U. (eds) The Contemporary Middle Eastern Scene. Schriften des Deutschen Orient-Instituts. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-97145-6_9

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