Morocco : the Islamist awakening and other challenges / Marvine Howe. [print]

By:

Howe, Marvine [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780195169638

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LOC classification:

DT305.H857.M676 2005
DT305

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Contents:

2 Tour du Maroc

4 The Long Shadow of King Hassan II

6 The Conflicting Worlds of Women -- 7 Split Identity -- 8 Grappling with Mirages

10 The New Society -- 11 Saharan Imbroglio -- 12 Friends, Neighbors, Others -- 13 Kingdom at the Crossroads -- Epilogue: The Challenges

Abstract: In Morocco, Marvine Howe, a former correspondent for The New York Times presents an incisive and comprehensive review of the Moroccan kingdom and its people, past and present. She provides a vivid and frank portrait of late King Hassan, whom she knew personally and credits with laying the foundations of a modern, pro-Western state and analyzes the pressures his successor, King Mohammed Virgin Islands has come under to transform the autocratic monarchy into a full-fledged democracy. Howe addresses emerging issues and problems--equal rights for women, elimination of corruption and correction ofglaringeconomic and social disparities--and asks the fundamental question: can this ancient Muslim kingdom embrace western democracy in an era of deepening divisions between the Islamic world and the West?

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	DT305.H69 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001756044

Part I: Return to Morocco

1 Commander of the Faithful -- 2 Tour du Maroc

Part II: The Ever-Present Past

3 Protectors, Wards, and Rebels -- 4 The Long Shadow of King Hassan II

Part III: Society in Motion

5 Islamic Revival -- 6 The Conflicting Worlds of Women -- 7 Split Identity -- 8 Grappling with Mirages

Part IV: Royal Democracy

9 Zigzags on the Road to Democracy -- 10 The New Society -- 11 Saharan Imbroglio -- 12 Friends, Neighbors, Others -- 13 Kingdom at the Crossroads -- Epilogue: The Challenges

In Morocco, Marvine Howe, a former correspondent for The New York Times presents an incisive and comprehensive review of the Moroccan kingdom and its people, past and present. She provides a vivid and frank portrait of late King Hassan, whom she knew personally and credits with laying the foundations of a modern, pro-Western state and analyzes the pressures his successor, King Mohammed Virgin Islands has come under to transform the autocratic monarchy into a full-fledged democracy. Howe addresses emerging issues and problems--equal rights for women, elimination of corruption and correction ofglaringeconomic and social disparities--and asks the fundamental question: can this ancient Muslim kingdom embrace western democracy in an era of deepening divisions between the Islamic world and the West?

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