Mohammed A Bamyeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammed A Bamyeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammed A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bamyeh |
| SIGNATURE | BAMYEH M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Global Epistemology
This chapter explores some of the building blocks of an epistemology that would be especially appropriate for global studies. A global epistemology requires a multidimensional approach because global complexity cannot be captured by any single discipline of knowledge or viewpoint. Six building blocks of such a global epistemology are proposed, each of which reverses common current approaches to global studies: highlighting meso- over macro-level …
Near Middle East/North Africa Studies: Society and History
Introduction to the special issue on Arab uprisings
Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government: Convergence and Divergence in Making Foreign Policy
As a nation of immigrants, the United States has long accepted that citizens who identify with an ancestral homeland may hold dual loyalties; yet Americans have at times regarded the persistence of foreign ties with suspicion, seeing them as a sign of potential disloyalty and a threat to national security. Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government brings together a group of distinguished scholars of international politics and international migration…
Anarchist Method, Liberal Intention, Authoritarian Lesson: The Arab Spring between Three Enlightenments
Intellectuals and Civil Society in The Middle East: Liberalism, Modernity and Political Discourse
Introduction The Social Dynamism and the Organic Intellectual - Mohammed A. Bamyeh PART I: INTELLECTUALS AS MODERN VANGUARD 2. Nazik al-'Abid and the Nur al-Fayha' Society: Independent Modernity, Colonial Threat and the Space of Women - Elizabeth Williams 3. Edification Between Sect and Nation: Murad Farag and al-Tahdhib 1901-03 - Lital Levy 4. The Public Intellectual and the Secret Society: Al-Kawakibi and his Legacy - Sanna Makhlouf PART II: IN…
The dawn of the Arab uprisings: End of an old order
Anarchist Philosophy, Civic Traditions and the Culture of Arab Revolutions
An exploration of the most common theories and methods used in the ongoing Arab uprisings suggests that their roots lie in ordinary and familiar civic ethics, rather than in any conscious ideological project preceding the revolutions. This article explores the hypothesis that the revolutions have been facilitated most by long-standing traditions of self-organization that are usually ignored in scholarship of social movements as well as by organiz…
Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North
Ends Of Globalization
Culture and Conflict in the Middle East
On Humanizing Abstractions
Revisiting Fanon's classic theory of violence and relying on some of his case studies, this article detects the propensity to see the world in abstract formats as the source of the most malignant forms of revolutionary violence. Based on this, the article explores how abstraction may still be a healthy way of thinking, especially in a globalized and postcolonial world. Two mechanisms for handling abstraction in humane ways are proposed, both of w…
Hermeneutics against Instrumental Reason: National and post-national Islam in the 20th century
Islamic identity and secular anti-colonial nationalism implied initially similar approaches to modernity in the Middle East. Islamic currents of the time reinterpreted Islam in an ‘instrumental’ fashion as an accompaniment to developmental nationalisms, elaborating their cultural aspects. However, new Islamic currents of recent decades reject secularism in favour not of instrumental Islam but of a hermeneutic one. Unlike instrumental Islam, in wh…
Truth and Reconciliation
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMohammed BamyehMohammed Bamyeh is the Hubert Humphrey Professor of International Studies at Macalester College
Fluid solidarities: Affiliations beyond the nation
The concept of ‘solidarity’ is one of the oldest and paradoxically least developed concepts in the history of sociology. The first definite use of ‘solidarity’ as a sociological concept can be traced back to Ibn Khaldun in fourteenth-century North Africa. Older uses of analogous concepts in high-medieval European political theory could be encountered in the thought of Thomas Aquinas, whose work was itself heavily based on Aristotle’s Politics, pr…
Palestine: Listening to the Inaudible
Research Article| October 01 2003 Palestine: Listening to the Inaudible Mohammed A. Bamyeh Mohammed A. Bamyeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (4): 825–849. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-4-825 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Introduction: Why Palestine
Chaos and the Conduits of Understanding
In this paper, I examine how processes of chaos come to be apprehended by mainstream paradigms in social theory but not to show how the chaos perspective explains things differently or better than any other perspective. In most creation mythologies, existence is preceded by a monumental void, a void that nonetheless possesses some prophesying qualities. The complete lack of anything whatever is captured most sweepingly not only as a simple condit…
Life and Vision under Globalization
The Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse
The New Imperialism
Research Article| March 01 2000 The New Imperialism: SIX THESES Mohammed A. Bamyeh Mohammed A. Bamyeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-1_62-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mohammed A. Bamyeh; The New Imperialism: SIX THESES. Social Text 1 March 2000; 18 (1 (62)): 1–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472…
Sociology, Civil Society, and the Unbound World
La sociologie a ses origines dans la modernite urbaine - dans la societe civile, plus precisement. Ces sources ont donne lieu a l'elaboration de systemes totalisants (totalistic) de representation sociale, qui culminent dans l'Etat moderne. Les deux contextes ont fait de la sociologie une sorte de pont entre la societe civile et l'Etat ou, en termes plus generaux, entre les traditions des collectivites sociales prosaiques et celles d'un appareil …
Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists
Critical essays from the Left: it is all the more clear that what we have to accomplish . . . ruthless criticism of all that exists. Marx, 1843
Frames of Belonging: Four Contemporary European Travels
L'ouverture des frontieres interieures en Europe occidentale suscite chez l'A. des interrogations sur l'identite europeenne. Que recouvre le sentiment d'appartenance a la culture europeenne, comment ce sentiment se manifeste-t-il par-dela les appartenances et a travers l'acceptation de l'alterite ? Par l'analyse de quatre textes contemporains puisant chacun leur inspiration dans un voyage europeen, il explore les notions d'origine et d'appartenan…
Anarchist Method, Liberal Intention, Authoritarian Lesson: The Arab Spring between Three Enlightenments
The Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse
On Humanizing Abstractions
Revisiting Fanon's classic theory of violence and relying on some of his case studies, this article detects the propensity to see the world in abstract formats as the source of the most malignant forms of revolutionary violence. Based on this, the article explores how abstraction may still be a healthy way of thinking, especially in a globalized and postcolonial world. Two mechanisms for handling abstraction in humane ways are proposed, both of w…
Introduction to the special issue on Arab uprisings
Hermeneutics against Instrumental Reason: National and post-national Islam in the 20th century
Islamic identity and secular anti-colonial nationalism implied initially similar approaches to modernity in the Middle East. Islamic currents of the time reinterpreted Islam in an ‘instrumental’ fashion as an accompaniment to developmental nationalisms, elaborating their cultural aspects. However, new Islamic currents of recent decades reject secularism in favour not of instrumental Islam but of a hermeneutic one. Unlike instrumental Islam, in wh…
The New Imperialism
Research Article| March 01 2000 The New Imperialism: SIX THESES Mohammed A. Bamyeh Mohammed A. Bamyeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-1_62-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mohammed A. Bamyeh; The New Imperialism: SIX THESES. Social Text 1 March 2000; 18 (1 (62)): 1–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472…
Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North
Anarchist Philosophy, Civic Traditions and the Culture of Arab Revolutions
An exploration of the most common theories and methods used in the ongoing Arab uprisings suggests that their roots lie in ordinary and familiar civic ethics, rather than in any conscious ideological project preceding the revolutions. This article explores the hypothesis that the revolutions have been facilitated most by long-standing traditions of self-organization that are usually ignored in scholarship of social movements as well as by organiz…
Palestine: Listening to the Inaudible
Research Article| October 01 2003 Palestine: Listening to the Inaudible Mohammed A. Bamyeh Mohammed A. Bamyeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (4): 825–849. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-4-825 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Frames of Belonging: Four Contemporary European Travels
L'ouverture des frontieres interieures en Europe occidentale suscite chez l'A. des interrogations sur l'identite europeenne. Que recouvre le sentiment d'appartenance a la culture europeenne, comment ce sentiment se manifeste-t-il par-dela les appartenances et a travers l'acceptation de l'alterite ? Par l'analyse de quatre textes contemporains puisant chacun leur inspiration dans un voyage europeen, il explore les notions d'origine et d'appartenan…
Frames of Belonging: Four Contemporary European Travels
L'ouverture des frontieres interieures en Europe occidentale suscite chez l'A. des interrogations sur l'identite europeenne. Que recouvre le sentiment d'appartenance a la culture europeenne, comment ce sentiment se manifeste-t-il par-dela les appartenances et a travers l'acceptation de l'alterite ? Par l'analyse de quatre textes contemporains puisant chacun leur inspiration dans un voyage europeen, il explore les notions d'origine et d'appartenan…
Sociology, Civil Society, and the Unbound World
La sociologie a ses origines dans la modernite urbaine - dans la societe civile, plus precisement. Ces sources ont donne lieu a l'elaboration de systemes totalisants (totalistic) de representation sociale, qui culminent dans l'Etat moderne. Les deux contextes ont fait de la sociologie une sorte de pont entre la societe civile et l'Etat ou, en termes plus generaux, entre les traditions des collectivites sociales prosaiques et celles d'un appareil …
Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists
Critical essays from the Left: it is all the more clear that what we have to accomplish . . . ruthless criticism of all that exists. Marx, 1843
The Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse
The New Imperialism
Research Article| March 01 2000 The New Imperialism: SIX THESES Mohammed A. Bamyeh Mohammed A. Bamyeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-1_62-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mohammed A. Bamyeh; The New Imperialism: SIX THESES. Social Text 1 March 2000; 18 (1 (62)): 1–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472…
Chaos and the Conduits of Understanding
In this paper, I examine how processes of chaos come to be apprehended by mainstream paradigms in social theory but not to show how the chaos perspective explains things differently or better than any other perspective. In most creation mythologies, existence is preceded by a monumental void, a void that nonetheless possesses some prophesying qualities. The complete lack of anything whatever is captured most sweepingly not only as a simple condit…
Life and Vision under Globalization
Palestine: Listening to the Inaudible
Research Article| October 01 2003 Palestine: Listening to the Inaudible Mohammed A. Bamyeh Mohammed A. Bamyeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (4): 825–849. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-4-825 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Introduction: Why Palestine
Fluid solidarities: Affiliations beyond the nation
The concept of ‘solidarity’ is one of the oldest and paradoxically least developed concepts in the history of sociology. The first definite use of ‘solidarity’ as a sociological concept can be traced back to Ibn Khaldun in fourteenth-century North Africa. Older uses of analogous concepts in high-medieval European political theory could be encountered in the thought of Thomas Aquinas, whose work was itself heavily based on Aristotle’s Politics, pr…
Truth and Reconciliation
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMohammed BamyehMohammed Bamyeh is the Hubert Humphrey Professor of International Studies at Macalester College
Hermeneutics against Instrumental Reason: National and post-national Islam in the 20th century
Islamic identity and secular anti-colonial nationalism implied initially similar approaches to modernity in the Middle East. Islamic currents of the time reinterpreted Islam in an ‘instrumental’ fashion as an accompaniment to developmental nationalisms, elaborating their cultural aspects. However, new Islamic currents of recent decades reject secularism in favour not of instrumental Islam but of a hermeneutic one. Unlike instrumental Islam, in wh…
Ends Of Globalization
Culture and Conflict in the Middle East
On Humanizing Abstractions
Revisiting Fanon's classic theory of violence and relying on some of his case studies, this article detects the propensity to see the world in abstract formats as the source of the most malignant forms of revolutionary violence. Based on this, the article explores how abstraction may still be a healthy way of thinking, especially in a globalized and postcolonial world. Two mechanisms for handling abstraction in humane ways are proposed, both of w…
Intellectuals and Civil Society in The Middle East: Liberalism, Modernity and Political Discourse
Introduction The Social Dynamism and the Organic Intellectual - Mohammed A. Bamyeh PART I: INTELLECTUALS AS MODERN VANGUARD 2. Nazik al-'Abid and the Nur al-Fayha' Society: Independent Modernity, Colonial Threat and the Space of Women - Elizabeth Williams 3. Edification Between Sect and Nation: Murad Farag and al-Tahdhib 1901-03 - Lital Levy 4. The Public Intellectual and the Secret Society: Al-Kawakibi and his Legacy - Sanna Makhlouf PART II: IN…
The dawn of the Arab uprisings: End of an old order
Anarchist Philosophy, Civic Traditions and the Culture of Arab Revolutions
An exploration of the most common theories and methods used in the ongoing Arab uprisings suggests that their roots lie in ordinary and familiar civic ethics, rather than in any conscious ideological project preceding the revolutions. This article explores the hypothesis that the revolutions have been facilitated most by long-standing traditions of self-organization that are usually ignored in scholarship of social movements as well as by organiz…
Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North
Anarchist Method, Liberal Intention, Authoritarian Lesson: The Arab Spring between Three Enlightenments
Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government: Convergence and Divergence in Making Foreign Policy
As a nation of immigrants, the United States has long accepted that citizens who identify with an ancestral homeland may hold dual loyalties; yet Americans have at times regarded the persistence of foreign ties with suspicion, seeing them as a sign of potential disloyalty and a threat to national security. Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government brings together a group of distinguished scholars of international politics and international migration…
Near Middle East/North Africa Studies: Society and History
Introduction to the special issue on Arab uprisings
Global Epistemology
This chapter explores some of the building blocks of an epistemology that would be especially appropriate for global studies. A global epistemology requires a multidimensional approach because global complexity cannot be captured by any single discipline of knowledge or viewpoint. Six building blocks of such a global epistemology are proposed, each of which reverses common current approaches to global studies: highlighting meso- over macro-level …
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · History (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (6 works)