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Ayubis main objective is to place the arab world within a theoretical framework that avoids both orientalist and fundamentalist insistence on the utter peculiarity and uniqueness of the region. Nazih ayubis last book, which was in press at the time of his sudden death in 1995. Religion and politics in the arab world by ayubi, nazih abebooks. Lewis argues that the political history of islam is one of almost unrelieved autocracy for the last thousand years, the political thinking of islam has been dominated by such maxims as tyranny is better than anarchy and whose power is established, obedience to him is incumbent lewis 1954, pp. Social and institutional origins of political islam. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.
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