Freedom in the Arab World

A preoccupation with the subject of freedom became a core issue in the construction of all modern political ideologies. Here, Wael Abu-''Uksa examines the development of the concept of freedom (hurriyya) in nineteenth-century Arab political thought, its ideological offshoots, their modes, and their substance as they developed the dynamics of the Arabic language. Abu-''Uksa traces the transition of...