Hamilton Books
Pages: 508
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-3857-9 • Paperback • February 2008 • $107.99 • (£83.00)
Ali A. Mazrui is a distinguished political scientist, a leading historian, and a multimedia public intellectual. He has written dozens of books, and narrated documentaries on British and American television. In Eastern Africa he grew up among Arabs, and in England and the United States he was partly educated by Jews. Foreign Policy magazine has described Mazrui as one of the top 100 public intellectuals alive in the world today. Ali Mazrui is currently Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University, New York; Senior Scholar in Africana Studies at Cornell University, New York; and Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya.
Seifudein Adem was educated in Ethiopia and Japan, and has taught in universities in Africa, Japan, and the United States. He is an expert on comparative politics and comparative cultural studies. His other books include Hegemony and Discourse and Paradigm Lost, Paradigm Regained. He has also written about the great Arab historian and inventor of modern sociology, Ibn Khaldun. Dr. Adem is currently Associate Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York.
Part 1 Preface and Acknowledgments
Part 2 Section I: The Great Semitic Divergence
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Towards the Europeanization of the Jews and the Africanization of the Arabs
Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Semitic Divergence and African Convergence
Part 5 Section II: Euro-Jews in World History
Chapter 6 Chapter 3: The Talmudic Tradition in Comparative Perspective
Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Muslims between the Jewish Example and the Black Experience
Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Blacks, Jews and Comparative Diasporas
Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Is Israel a Threat to American Democracy?
Part 10 Section III: Afro-Arabs in World History
Chapter 11 Chapter 7: Between Arabo-Hebraic Divergence and Afro-Arab Convergence
Chapter 12 Chapter 8: The Black Arabs in Comparative Perspective
Chapter 13 Chapter 9: The Multiple Marginality of the Sudan
Chapter 14 Chapter 10: Africa and Egypt's Four Circles: Nasser's Legacy
Chapter 15 Chapter 11: Afro-Arab Crossfire
Chapter 16 Chapter 12: Eurafrica, Erabia, and Afro-Arab Relations
Part 17 Section IV: The Semites Between Sin and Virture
Chapter 18 Chapter 13: Comparative Slavery: Western, Muslim and African Legacies
Chapter 19 Chapter 14: Comparative Racism: Zionism and Apartheid
Chapter 20 Chapter 15: Comparative Terrorism: Arab, Jewish and African (Usama, Sharon and Shaka)
Chapter 21 Chapter 16: Black Intifadah: The Mau Mau War and the Palestinian Uprising
Chapter 22 Chapter 17: Between Intifadah and Al Quaeda: East African Perspectives
Part 23 Section V: Islam in World Affairs
Chapter 24 Chapter 18: Muslims in a Century of Four Ethical Revolutions
Chapter 25 Chapter 19: Africa and Islam in Search of Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Chapter 26 Chapter 20: Islam and the United States: Streams of Convergence, Strands of Divergence
Part 27 Section VI: Conclusions
Chapter 28 Chapter 21: The Semitic Impact on Africa
Chapter 29 Chapter 22: Euro-Jews and Afro-Arabs in World History: A Conclusion
Part 30 Appendix I: Prosperous Minorities as Targets of Prejudice
Part 31 Appendix II: Is "Jewish Uniqueness" a Dangerous Doctrine?
Part 32 Appendix III: The Nuclear Club: Is There a Judeo-Christian Monopoly?
It is...of considerable value to those who wish to understand better the historical trends and appreciate the respective places of Euro-Jews and Afro-Arabs in history and geography....Recommended.
— Choice Reviews, November 2008