8vo. xxi, 256 pp., foreword by Ernest Gellner, original cloth, previous owner’s name inscribed verso front & lower cover, title gilt on spine & front cover, biblio, index, Macmillan in Association with St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, first edition, 1984.

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Contents
Introduction: social movements in the contemporary Near and Middle East / Said Amir Arjomand — Nationalism in the Middle East : a behavioural approach / Richard Cottam — Social factors in the rise of the Arab movement in Syria / Rashid Khalidi — Emergent trends in Moslem tribal society : the Wazir movement of the Mullah of Wana in North-Western Frontier province of Pakistan / Akbar Ahmed — National integration and traditional rural organisation in Algeria, 1970-80 : background for Islamic traditionalism? / Peter von Sivers — Politicisation of Islam in a secular state : the National Salvation Party in Turkey / Binnaz Toprak — Ideology, social class, and Islamic radicalism in modern Egypt / Eric Davis — The Fadaʾiyan-e Islam : fanaticism, politics and terror / Farhad Kazemi — Sermons, revolutionary pamphleteering and mobilisation : Iran, 1978 / Shaul Bakhash — Traditionalism in twentieth-century Iran / Said Amir Arjomand.