Elie Kedourie

Elie Kedourie CBE, FBA (* January 25, 1926, † June 29, 1992 in Washington ) was a British conservative historian with a focus on the Middle East. He was considered as conservative as unorthodox and taught at the London School of Economics (LSE ) from 1953 to 1990 as a political scientist.

Background and Career

He grew up as the son of Iraqi Jews in Baghdad and began his studies at the LSE. ( Later published as England and the Middle East) His doctoral thesis criticized the British policy in Iraq during the interwar period. Kedourie was initially denied because of a conflict with an examiner, Sir Hamilton Gibb of the title. Michael Oakeshott Kedourie brought back to the LSE.

The later book criticized TE Lawrence and the British support of Arab nationalism sharp. In 1964, Kedourie the Middle Eastern Studies Journal.

Reflections on Middle East policy and development issues

His 1960 book, published to nationalism, which he regarded as a time-bound and negative phenomenon, led to counter publications, Thought and Change (1964) and Nations and Nationalism (1983 ) by Ernest Gellner. Kedourie criticized as a self-critical imbecility of the British Empire in voluptuous self-accusation. Arnold J. Toynbee, he stopped in front in The Chatham House Version, to be at fault with, on the loss of the British determining role in the Middle East.

According to Kedourie poverty and the development gap between the Third World did not come from the exploitation by the first concluded, but by their own dysfunctional traditions and cultures, corruption and lack of public spirit.

  • England and the Middle East: The Vital Years 1914-1921 (1956 ) later as England and the Middle East; the destruction of the Ottoman Empire 1914-1921
  • Nationalism (1960), revised edition 1993
  • Afghani and ' Abduh: An essay on religious unbelief and political activism in modern Islam ( 1966)
  • The Chatham House Version: And Other Middle Eastern Studies (1970 )
  • Nationalism in Asia and Africa ( 1970) editor
  • Arabic Political Memoirs and Other Studies (1974 )
  • In the Anglo -Arab Labyrinth: The McMahon - Husayn Correspondence and its Interpretations 1914-1939 (1976 )
  • Middle Eastern Economy: Studies in Economics and Economic History (1976 )
  • The Jewish World: Revelation, Prophecy and History (1979 ) editor, as The Jewish World: History and Culture of the Jewish World (U.S.)
  • Islam in the Modern World and Other Studies (1980 )
  • Towards a Modern Iran; Studies in Thought, Politics and Society ( 1980) editor with Sylvia G. Haim
  • Modern Egypt: Studies in Politics and Society ( 1980) editor
  • Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel ( 1982) editor with Sylvia G. Haim
  • The Crossman Confessions and Other Essays in Politics, History and Religion ( 1984)
  • Diamonds into Glass: The Government and the Universities (1988 )
  • Essays on the Economic History of the Middle East (1988 ) editor with Sylvia G. Haim
  • Democracy and Arab Political Culture (1992 )
  • Politics in the Middle East (1992 )
  • Spain and the Jews: The Sephardi Experience, 1492 and after ( 1992)
  • Hegel & Marx: Introductory Lectures (1995 )
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