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In addressing the issues of society, state and religion in the Arab World from the point of view of the discipline of International Relations, I am inclined to resume the elaboration of the philosophical thoughts outlined in Furio Cerutti’s contribution. International Relations in the tradition of the late Oxford scholar Hedley Bull is much related to intellectual and philosophical thoughts that direct the analysis of the subject under issue.
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For example, see B. Tibi, Conflict and War in the Middle East: From Interstate War to New Security, 2nd edn (London: Macmillan Press, 1998).
See B. Tibi, Arab Nationalism, under the new subtitle Between Islam and the Nation-State, 3rd edn (London: Macmillan Press, 1997), 1st edn 1980, 2nd 1990, with the subtitle A Critical Inquiry. This book includes a very rich and subdivided bibliography, updated in the new edition
See B. Tibi, ‘The Cultural Underpinning of Civil Society in Islamic Civilization’, in Elizabeth Özdalga and Sune Persson, eds, Civil Society, Democracy and the Muslim World, (Richmond/GB: Curzon Press, 1997), pp. 23–32.
B. Tibi, ‘Old Tribes and Imposed Nation-States in the Modern Middle East’, in Philip Khoury and Joseph Kostiner, eds, Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), pp. 127–152.
D.E. Apter, The Politics of Modernization, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965).
D.E. Apter, Rethinking Development: Modernization,Dependency and Postmodern Politics, (Newbury Park: Sage, 1987).
B. Tibi, The Challenge of Fundamentalism. Political Islam and the New World Disorder, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
For more details on this issue see B. Tibi, Der wahre Imam. Der Islam von Mohammed bis zur Gegenwart, (Munich: Piper Press, 1996, new edn 1998).
On Sati al-Husri see part two to four in B. Tibi, Arab Nationalism, (1997).
See B. Tibi, Der wahre Imam, (1998) chapter 8.
B. Tibi, The Challenge of Fundamentalism, (1998).
M.S. al-Ashmawi, al-Islam as-siyasi, (Cairo: Dar Sina, 1989).
H. Hanafi, al-Usuliyya al-Islamiyya, (Cairo: Madbuli, 1989) pp. 6–7.
See by M.E. Marty and R. S. Appleby, eds, The Fundamentalism Project, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991–1995).
B. Tibi, The Challenge of Fundamentalism, (1998).
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Tibi, B. (2001). The Middle East: Society, State and Religion. In: Cerutti, F., Ragionieri, R. (eds) Identities and Conflicts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288690_8
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