CIVIL SOCIETY DISCOURSES IN MOSLEM ARAB COUNTRIES

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SABZEHEI M.T.

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Journal: Iranian Journal of Sociology Year:2009 | Volume:10 | Issue:3 Page(s): 106-140

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CIVIL SOCIETY DISCOURSES IN MOSLEM ARAB COUNTRIES

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CIVIL SOCIETYQ2

HOMOGENEOUS SOCIETYQ3

PUBLIC SPHEREQ2

AUTHORITARIAN STATEQ3

ISLAM AND DEMOCRACYQ2

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The aim of this paper is to conduct a sociological analysis on the Arab approaches to the question of CIVIL SOCIETY. It is a documentary study based on the literature of CIVIL SOCIETY. The study initially seeks to present an overview of the essential issues concerning the possibility of realization of CIVIL SOCIETY in the Moslem Arab countries of the Middle East. In conducting the analysis, the paper first exposes main questions that the Western social thinkers frequently ask when the subject of CIVIL SOCIETY comes under discussion. Then, the author presents an analysis of the native Arab approaches that attempt to answer these questions as discussed by the Western social thinkers. All these approaches can be said to be striving to explain the ambiguities that have come to appear in the literature. The non-Arab perspective supposedly recognizes the CIVIL SOCIETY as a feature of the modern Western society. In this view, the realization of CIVIL SOCIETY in the Moslem Arab countries is impossible for a variety of reasons. A summary of such reasons can be summed up as: the alleged paradoxical, or contradictory relationship between ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY; predominance of a hierarchal social structure in the Arab world; weakness of society versus power of religion and the state; and mere survival of the absolute state in these societies. In contrast to the non-native approach, there are three other perspectives adopted toward an exposition of the Arab CIVIL SOCIETY in the Moslem Arab countries; we call these perspectives Islamic, Liberal and Socialist ones. Although none of these is in accord with the Western model of CIVIL SOCIETY in all its dimensions, yet a negation of the Western model is not attempted either. On the contrary, these perspectives, declare the necessity and possibility of an Arab CIVIL SOCIETY due to extensive social and political changes in the Moslem Arab societies, changes that have occurred in the recent decades.

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SABZEHEI, M.T.. (2009). CIVIL SOCIETY DISCOURSES IN MOSLEM ARAB COUNTRIES. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY (ISA), 10(3), 106-140. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/67527/en

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SABZEHEI M.T.. CIVIL SOCIETY DISCOURSES IN MOSLEM ARAB COUNTRIES. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY (ISA)[Internet]. 2009;10(3):106-140. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/67527/en

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M.T. SABZEHEI, “CIVIL SOCIETY DISCOURSES IN MOSLEM ARAB COUNTRIES,” IRANIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY (ISA), vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 106–140, 2009, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/67527/en

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