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In 1997, at a remarkable weekend-long tribute to the legendary Eqbal Ahmad, the Palestinian scholar and author Edward W. Said urged Ahmad not to leave his "words scattered to the winds, or even recorded on tape, but collected and published in several volumes for everyone to read. Then those who ...

In 1997, at a remarkable weekend-long tribute to the legendary Eqbal Ahmad, the Palestinian scholar and author Edward W. Said urged Ahmad not to leave his "words scattered to the winds, or even recorded on tape, but collected and published in several volumes for everyone to read. Then those who don't have the privilege of knowing you will know what a truly remarkable, gifted man you are".

Ahmad died suddenly in the spring of 1999 before Said's dream came to fruition. Now, for the first time ever, Ahmad's most provocative ideas will be available in book form.

In these intimate and wide-ranging discussions, Ahmad tells us about life with Mohandas Gandhi, his infamous indictment with the Berrigan brothers for organizing against the Vietnam War, and his role as a key figure in liberation struggles around the world. This book will be a treasured keepsake for Ahmad's legions of fans and a vital contribution to international dissident literature.

In this book Juan R. I. Cole challenges traditional elite-centered conceptions of the conflict that led to the British occupation of Egypt in September 1882. For a year before the British intervened, Egypt's viceregal government and the country's influential European community had been locked in a ...

In this book Juan R. I. Cole challenges traditional elite-centered conceptions of the conflict that led to the British occupation of Egypt in September 1882. For a year before the British intervened, Egypt's viceregal government and the country's influential European community had been locked in a struggle with the nationalist supporters of General Ahmad al-`Urabi. Although most Western observers still see the `Urabi movement as a revolt of junior military officers with only limited support among the Egyptian people, Cole maintains that it was a broadly based social revolution hardly underway when it was cut off by the British. While arguing this fresh point of view, he also proposes a theory of revolutions against informal or neocolonial empires, drawing parallels between Egypt in 1882, the Boxer Rebellion in China, and the Islamic Revolution in modern Iran. In a thorough examination of the changing Egyptian political culture from 1858 through the `Urabi episode, Cole shows how various social strata--urban guilds, the intelligentsia, and village notables--became revolutionary. Addressing issues raised by such scholars as Barrington Moore and Theda Skocpol, his book combines four complementary approaches: social structure and its socioeconomic context, organization, ideology, and the ways in which unexpected conjunctures of events help drive a revolution.