The State and the authority in Contemporary Arab Thought

Authors

  • Mohammed A. A. Rababah, Dr.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25255/jss.2017.6.2.424.437

Keywords:

Arab thought, state problem, authority, legitimacy, legality

Abstract

The state and the conceptual issues related to it, such as authority, legality and legitimacy are considered bold problematical issues, which raised many opinions and vision of the Arabic philosophers with regard to the state issues, subjects, and debates and discussed cases, based on ideological and philosophical visions, in which most of the philosophers try to configure the main problem and its related issues that start to develop and existed recently in the contemporary Arabic thought.

 

This research is an attempt to shed the light over this problematic issue, through discussing this issue by expressing the contemporary problematic issues regarding the past and the present the government and authority and validation issue, and the state between the weakness of its legality and the absence of its legitimacy.

 

The research concluded that the state must be based on foundations that seek to consolidate the essence of democracy and the legitimacy of a national state and the legitimacy of its political power, and not to settle for justifying and legitimizing the existing systems that suffer from intellectual weakness related to actual status of the modern Arab state.

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• Books:

1. Al Ansary, Mohammed (2000),The Formation of Political Arab and the Significance of the Nation State, Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies. Ed: 3.

2. Al Arawi, Abed Allah, (1988). The Concept of State, Beirut: Arab Cultural Center, Ed: 4

3. Al Arawi, Abed Allah, (1993). The Contemporary Arab Idology, Beirut: Arab Cultural Center.

4. Arkoon, Mohammed (1988), Historical Arab Islamic Thought, translate by Hashem Salah, Beirut: Arab Cultural Center.

5. Ba kadeer, Abu Baker,(others) (2010), In The Political Sociology And Development, Beirut: The Arab net for research, Ed: 1.

6. Galyon, Borhan (2003), Arab and Word Transformation,Beirut: Arab Cultural Center.

7. Al Jabari. Mohammed Abed, (1982). We and The Heritage, Casablanca: Arab Cultural Center, Ed: 2.

8. Al Jabari. Mohammed Abed, (1985), Contemporary Arab Discourse, Beirut: Dar Al Taliyah, Ed: 1.

9. Al Jabari. Mohammed Abed, (1994), Democracy and Human Rights,Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies.

10. Jadaan, Fehmi, (1997). Past and Future: Studies in the formations and paths of the Arab intellectual experience, Beirut: Arab Institute for studies and Publishing.

11. Jomaah, Mohammed ( 1994), State Theory in Contemporary Arab Thought, Damascus: Dar Ala Eldeen press, Ed: 1.

12. Horany, Albirt( 1968), Arab Thought In The Renaissance, Beirut: Dar Alnahar press.

13. Ibraheen, Sad Eldeen, Others (1988), Society and State In The Arab World, Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies.

14. Laski, Haroled (1963), the State between Theory and Practice, Translator: Ahmed Gonam. Beirut: Dar Al Taleah, Ed: 2.

15. Naseef, Nassar ( 2001), Logic of Authority, introduction to the philosophy, Beirut: Dar Amwaj, Ed: 3.

16. Omlal, Ali.(1985), Arab reform and national State,Beirut: Arab Cultural Center.

17. Sa'adeh, Antwan ( 1986), The Emergence Of Nations, Damascus: Dar Itlas, Ed: 1.
18. Sibertin, Guillaume,( 2010 ) Political Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries,Translator: Dr. Ezzeddine Khattabi,Beirut: Arab Organization for Translation.

19. Safady, Mohtaa, ( 1983), Signs Of Authority, Contemporary Arab Thought (25), Beirut: Arab Development Center.

20. Al Sayeed, Rizwan, Balkazez, abed Al Elah(2001), The Crisis Of The Arab Political Thought, Damascus: Dar Al-faker.

21. Shokry, Galy( 1986), The dictatorship of Arab backwardness,Beirut: Dar Al -Taliyah.

22. Tarabishi, George (1982), The State and national Theory, Beirut: Dare Al Taliyah press.

23. Taweel, Abed AL Salam (2006), The Arab State in the Wind, Galyoon Political Thought Study, Cairo: Al-Ahram center.

24. Wally, Khamees(2003), The problem of Legitimacy in the Arab Political systems, Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies.

25. Al Zobaydi, Hussan, (2008) National Arabic State, Theoretical Approach, Amman: Scientific Center for Political Study, Ed: 1.

26. Zeoor, Mohammed (1990), Documentation in opinions of power and leadership. Beirut: Rashad Press, Ed: 1.


• Journals:

1. Editorial Board (1983), Journal of Contemporary Arab Thought (3), Beirut: Arab Development Center.

2. Hilal, Ali El-deen( 2007), The Relationship Between The State And The Society In Political Analysis, Journal Of Political Science(15), Beirut: The Arab Political Science Association.

3. Sokary, Rafeek (1983), The State between Western development and Arab application, Contemporary Arab Thought (24), Beirut: Arab Development Center.

4. Al Turkomani, Abed Allah, (July 2002). An Approach tothe Crisis of the Arab National Project.Almustaqbal- alarabi journal, no: 281.

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2017-04-01

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Rababah, M. A. A. (2017). The State and the authority in Contemporary Arab Thought. Journal of Social Sciences (COES&Amp;RJ-JSS), 6(2), 424–437. https://doi.org/10.25255/jss.2017.6.2.424.437

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