Elie Kedourie
Biographic Data
| ID | 280239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elie Kedourie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elie |
| FAMILY NAME | Kedourie |
| SIGNATURE | KEDOURIE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
National and International Politics in the Middle East: Essays in Honour of Elie Kedourie
Palestine and Israel in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Democracy and Arab Political Culture
Except for Israel, the Middle East remains largely untouched by the democratic revolution that swept across Eastern Europe and the former USSR. This book aims to explain and analyze the reasons why despotism or religious fundamentalism continue to control the Middle Eastern countries
Arabic Political Memoirs and Other Studies
Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel
Published in the year 1982, Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel is a valuable contribution to the field of Middle Eastern studies
The Cyprus problem and its solution
The Jews of Babylon and Baghdad
Retirement dinner address
Michael Oakeshott: A colleague's view
Politics in the Middle East
Spain and the Jews: The Sephardi Experience, 1492 and After
The British Universities under Duress: Two essays by Professor Elie Kedourie
Anti‐Shiism in Iraq under the Monarchy
In March 1947, Salih Jabr became the first Shiite Prime Minister of Iraq. At the end of January 1948, his government fell following riots in Baghdad occasioned by the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty signed shortly before at Portsmouth. The fall of Salih Jabr's administration came about chiefly as a result of the Regent Abdul-Iah's failure of nerve, when at a meeting of ministers and exministers, called while Salih Jabr was still in London, he was bounced into…
The Shiite issue in Iraqi politics, 1941
In the April 1988 number of Middle Eastern Studies I published a despatch of December 1950 from the British Ambassador in Baghdad dealing with SunniShiite tensions and both their immediate and their more remote causes. As I wrote in the introductory note preceding the despatch, to judge by the records, the Shiite problem in Iraqi politics is hardly ever reported or discussed by British officials or representatives in Iraq. This was certainly the …
Minorities and majorities in the Middle East
Minority and majority are correlative terms: to say the one necessarily implies the other.The notion of minority and majority has for a long time now been part of the Western political vocabulary. How did this happen ? It is a natural question to ask since neither the Latin words from which they are derived, i.e., minor and maior, nor their particular derivations in various European languages originally had a political bearing or implication. In …
The Bludan congress on Palestine, September 1937
Almost from the very beginning of the Mandate, the leaders of the antiZionist struggle in Palestine sought to involve the Muslim and Arab worlds in their cause. Whether this has benefited the Palestine Arabs must remain to this day doubtful. But the Mufti who, by the end of the nineteen-twenties, was bidding fair to become their undisputed leader clearly thought that Muslim and Arab solidarity would prove to be a powerful, if not the most powerfu…
Mémoires politiques arabes
Lebanon: The Perils of Independence
In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth: The McMahon-Husayn Correspondence and its Interpretations, 1914-1939
Part 1 The quicksand: Cairo, London and the Sharif of Mecca Kitchener, Grey and the Arab Question mysteries of the McMahon-Husayn correspondence. Part 2 The flay in the fly-bottle: Husayn interprets McMahon's promises, 1916-17 Sykes, Picot and Husayn Wingate, Hogarth and Husayn varieties of official historiography I - the Arab Bureau, Nicholson, Toynbee the correspondence in the peace-settlement - Faysal and Young varieties of official historiogr…
The surrender of Medina, January 1919
According to clause 16 of the armistice of Mudros, signed on 30 October 1918, all Ottoman garrisons in the Hijaz, Asir, Yemen, Syria and Mesopotamia were, on the coming into force of the armistice, to surrender 'to the nearest Allied Commander'.' But, as is commonly known, this stipulation was not carried out in the case of Medina, the Ottoman garrison of which had succeeded in holding their own against Sharifian hostility from June 1916 onwards.…
Continuity and change in modern Iraqi history
The death of Adib Ishaq
The intellectual history of the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries includes a chapter, long hidden, and as yet still very imperfectly known. It concerns the spread of religious heterodoxy, unbelief or scepticism among Muslims, Christians and Jews alike. The traces of such revolt against the traditional faiths are now both faint and fragmentary. This is because those involved, or their friends and relatives, have been anxious, f…
Afghani in Paris: A note
In her recently published work, Djamal-ed-Din Assad Abadi dit Afghani, Mrs Homa Pakdaman has printed a large number of documents which she had succeeded in tracking down and locating. Among these documents figure two reports copied from Afghani's file now in the Archives historiques of the Prefecture de Police in Paris (pp. 339-42). One of the reports, dated March 28, 1884, that is more than two years after Afghani's arrival in Paris, is remarkab…
The politics of political literature: Kawakabi, Azouri and Jung
It is now generally agreed that Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi and Negib Azoury are the first to have formulated in books the view the Arabs were entitled to secede from the Ottoman Empire and to have the Caliphate transferred back to them. The arguments by which such a demand was supported are certainly worth examining; but since these arguments are not academic or scientific, but political or practical, it becomes equally interesting to examine the …
Nationalism in Asia and Africa
Democracy and Arab Political Culture
Except for Israel, the Middle East remains largely untouched by the democratic revolution that swept across Eastern Europe and the former USSR. This book aims to explain and analyze the reasons why despotism or religious fundamentalism continue to control the Middle Eastern countries
Nationalism in Asia and Africa
England and the Middle East
Nationalism in Asia and Africa
Young Turks, Freemasons and Jews
(1971). Young Turks, Freemasons and Jews. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 89-104
The Jews of Baghdad in 1910
Vice-consul Wilkie Young's report on Mosul in 1909, printed in the last issue of this Journal, deserved publication both by reason of its lively and shrewd observation, and by reason of the general paucity of information on this city in the last years of Ottoman rule. Another British consular report which also seems worth publishing-but not for exactly the same reasons-is the 'Account of the Jewish Community at Baghdad', which the consul-general,…
Anti‐Shiism in Iraq under the Monarchy
In March 1947, Salih Jabr became the first Shiite Prime Minister of Iraq. At the end of January 1948, his government fell following riots in Baghdad occasioned by the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty signed shortly before at Portsmouth. The fall of Salih Jabr's administration came about chiefly as a result of the Regent Abdul-Iah's failure of nerve, when at a meeting of ministers and exministers, called while Salih Jabr was still in London, he was bounced into…
The Bludan congress on Palestine, September 1937
Almost from the very beginning of the Mandate, the leaders of the antiZionist struggle in Palestine sought to involve the Muslim and Arab worlds in their cause. Whether this has benefited the Palestine Arabs must remain to this day doubtful. But the Mufti who, by the end of the nineteen-twenties, was bidding fair to become their undisputed leader clearly thought that Muslim and Arab solidarity would prove to be a powerful, if not the most powerfu…
Sir Herbert Samuel and the government of Palestine
When, in April 1920, Lloyd George asked Herbert Samuel to undertake the government of Palestine, the mandate for which had just been assigned to Great Britain, he was quite deliberately offering the appointment to someone who sympathized with Zionism and would try to make a success of the Zionist programme. Samuel's interest in and involvement with Zionism dated at least from the outbreak of the War in 1914. When in November of that year the Otto…
The politics of political literature: Kawakabi, Azouri and Jung
It is now generally agreed that Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi and Negib Azoury are the first to have formulated in books the view the Arabs were entitled to secede from the Ottoman Empire and to have the Caliphate transferred back to them. The arguments by which such a demand was supported are certainly worth examining; but since these arguments are not academic or scientific, but political or practical, it becomes equally interesting to examine the …
Sir Mark Sykes and Palestine 1915–16
The role of Sir Mark Sykes in the formation of British Middle-Eastern policy in the First World War has always been thought to be prominent. But it is only now, when most of the relevant archives have been made available, that his role is coming to be exactly known, and the degree of its prominence to be appreciated. It is with the so-called Sykes-Picot Agreement that his name has been mostly associated. In a book published in 1956 I remarked tha…
VI. Cairo and Khartoum on the Arab Question, 1915-18
The Arab question in British diplomacy, it is remarkable to observe, has conjured up, both among those directly involved and among subsequent commentators, an amount of passionate discussion, of anguished retrospection, of accusation and self-denunciation, quite out of proportion to its intrinsic importance. For after all, compared to the great issues of Europe, America, the Commonwealth, and India, the Husain-McMahon Correspondence, the Sykes-Pi…
In Praise of Enlightenment
Egypt and the Caliphate 1915–1946
It is common knowledge that religion and politics in Islam are closely related, and that in this relationship, the prevalent mode has been for the man of the sword to dominate the man of the pen. This is so both in theory and practice: passive obedience to the ruler has been erected into a religious duty, while religious dignitaries, muftis, qadls, and such have been usually content to play the rôle of an attendant lord, one that will do To swell…
Panarabism and British Policy
The Cyprus problem and its solution
The Jews of Babylon and Baghdad
Minorities and majorities in the Middle East
Minority and majority are correlative terms: to say the one necessarily implies the other.The notion of minority and majority has for a long time now been part of the Western political vocabulary. How did this happen ? It is a natural question to ask since neither the Latin words from which they are derived, i.e., minor and maior, nor their particular derivations in various European languages originally had a political bearing or implication. In …
Continuity and change in modern Iraqi history
The death of Adib Ishaq
The intellectual history of the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries includes a chapter, long hidden, and as yet still very imperfectly known. It concerns the spread of religious heterodoxy, unbelief or scepticism among Muslims, Christians and Jews alike. The traces of such revolt against the traditional faiths are now both faint and fragmentary. This is because those involved, or their friends and relatives, have been anxious, f…
Afghani in Paris: A note
In her recently published work, Djamal-ed-Din Assad Abadi dit Afghani, Mrs Homa Pakdaman has printed a large number of documents which she had succeeded in tracking down and locating. Among these documents figure two reports copied from Afghani's file now in the Archives historiques of the Prefecture de Police in Paris (pp. 339-42). One of the reports, dated March 28, 1884, that is more than two years after Afghani's arrival in Paris, is remarkab…
The End of the Ottoman Empire
At the Armistice of Mudros, signed on 30 October I918, the Sick Man of Europe as the Ottoman Empire had for so long been derisively known finally died. For all his alleged sickness, however, the Sick Man did not die of disease, but was violently destroyed in a long and bitter war in which he proved a formidable opponent and gave quite a good account of himself. But now, at the end of 1918, the Empire was lying prostrate, its central government qu…
The American university of Beirut
Annual Reports, Board of Managers, Syrian Protestant College, 1866-7/1901-2 256 pp., photographs, Beirut, n.d
American Zionism and U.S. Foreign Policy 1942–1947
Journal Article American Zionism and U.S. Foreign Policy 1942–1947 Get access American Zionism and U.S. Foreign Policy 1942–1947. By Richard P. Stevens. New York: Pageant Press. 1962. 227 pp. Bibliog. $3.50. Elie Kedourie Elie Kedourie Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 1963, Pages 480–481, https://doi.org/10.2307/2611280 Published: 01 July 1963
Revolutionary Justice in Egypt: The Trials of 1953
Islam and the Orientalists: Some Recent Discussions
r NHE EVOLUTION of Muhammad's preaching, says Professor Grunebaum in his new book on Islam,[I] with its comparatively , z poor background of Arabian civilization into the cultural system of Islam with its claim to universal validity, forcefully colouring with its own and unmistakable patina every single object appropriated and every single thought accepted, is one of the most fascinating spectacles of history. Taken in conjunction with an earlier…
A Survey of Recent Books on the Middle East and North Africa
Panarabism and British Policy
England and the Middle East. The Destruction of the Ottoman Empire 1914-1921
Revolutionary Justice in Egypt: The Trials of 1953
England and the Middle East
The Arab Bloc in the United Nations
Israel and the Palestine Arabs
The Middle East
Egypt and the Caliphate 1915–1946
It is common knowledge that religion and politics in Islam are closely related, and that in this relationship, the prevalent mode has been for the man of the sword to dominate the man of the pen. This is so both in theory and practice: passive obedience to the ruler has been erected into a religious duty, while religious dignitaries, muftis, qadls, and such have been usually content to play the rôle of an attendant lord, one that will do To swell…
American Zionism and U.S. Foreign Policy 1942–1947
Journal Article American Zionism and U.S. Foreign Policy 1942–1947 Get access American Zionism and U.S. Foreign Policy 1942–1947. By Richard P. Stevens. New York: Pageant Press. 1962. 227 pp. Bibliog. $3.50. Elie Kedourie Elie Kedourie Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 1963, Pages 480–481, https://doi.org/10.2307/2611280 Published: 01 July 1963
The capture of Damascus, 1 October, 1918
When Colonel Lawrence renounced the world his ambition, as readers of his Letters know, was to become a great writer, to exchange the uncertain and treacherous triumphs of war and politics for the sure and lasting reward of artistic creation. The attempt does not come off, and Severn Pillars is a work seething with rancour and resentment, full of advocacy and rhetoric, firmly imprisoned in the world of practice from which its author ceaselessly p…
The Arab States and the Arab League: A Documentary Record. Vol. I. Constitutional Developments. Vol. II. International Affairs
Journal Article The Arab States and the Arab League: A Documentary Record. Vol. I. Constitutional Developments. Vol. II. International Affairs Get access The Arab States and the Arab League: A Documentary Record. Vol. I. Constitutional Developments. Vol. II. International Affairs. By Muhammad Khalil. Beirut: Khayats; London: Constable. 1962. Vol. I. 705 pp. Tables. Index. Vol II. 1019 pp. Index. 2 vols. 252s. Elie Kedourie Elie Kedourie Search fo…
VI. Cairo and Khartoum on the Arab Question, 1915-18
The Arab question in British diplomacy, it is remarkable to observe, has conjured up, both among those directly involved and among subsequent commentators, an amount of passionate discussion, of anguished retrospection, of accusation and self-denunciation, quite out of proportion to its intrinsic importance. For after all, compared to the great issues of Europe, America, the Commonwealth, and India, the Husain-McMahon Correspondence, the Sykes-Pi…
In Praise of Enlightenment
Further light on Afghani
Afghani and 'Abduh: An Essay on Religious Unbelief and Political Activism in Modern Islam
This is a reprint of the late professor's work on Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1838-1879) and his well-known Egyptian discipline Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905), the Mufti of Egypt. These two men have generally been seen as devout Muslims who helped rejuvenate their religion which had been stagnating for many centuries.The author provides evidence which suggests that these two men were involved in Islam's small and silent atheist movement which had a sub…
Wavell and Iraq, April‐May 1941
Wavell Scholar and Soldier: To June 1941, by John Connell, 574 pp., illustrations, maps, index. Collins, 45s
The American university of Beirut
Annual Reports, Board of Managers, Syrian Protestant College, 1866-7/1901-2 256 pp., photographs, Beirut, n.d
The End of the Ottoman Empire
At the Armistice of Mudros, signed on 30 October I918, the Sick Man of Europe as the Ottoman Empire had for so long been derisively known finally died. For all his alleged sickness, however, the Sick Man did not die of disease, but was violently destroyed in a long and bitter war in which he proved a formidable opponent and gave quite a good account of himself. But now, at the end of 1918, the Empire was lying prostrate, its central government qu…
Revolutionary Nationalism in Asia and Africa
IN CHAPTER XVIII OF THE CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVEGovernment(1861) which discussed ‘The Government of Dependencies by Free States’ John Stuart Mill wrote that ‘It is always under great difficulties and very imperfectly, that a country can be governed by foreigners; even where there is no extreme disparity, in habits and ideas, between the rulers and the ruled. Foreigners do not feel with the people. They cantlot judge, by the light in which…
The Elusive Jamil Al‐din Al‐afghani” a Comment
Sir Herbert Samuel and the government of Palestine
When, in April 1920, Lloyd George asked Herbert Samuel to undertake the government of Palestine, the mandate for which had just been assigned to Great Britain, he was quite deliberately offering the appointment to someone who sympathized with Zionism and would try to make a success of the Zionist programme. Samuel's interest in and involvement with Zionism dated at least from the outbreak of the War in 1914. When in November of that year the Otto…
Was Britain's abdication folly: II: Reflections on the Kedourie version
Learned journals and scholarly reviewing: A correspondence
In the course of discussing Professor N. R. Keddie's book, An Islamic Response to Imperialism, in Volume 89, no. 2, of the Journal, your reviewer finds it necessary to make many statements concerning me and my book, Afghani and 'Abduh. One such statement is to the effect that 'Both Kedourie and Keddie suggest the possibility of Afghani's homosexuality'. I shall be interested to know the evidence on which this allegation, so far as it concerns me,…
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