Christoph Schumann is Professor of Politics and Contemporary History of the Middle East at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His research focuses on political ideologies in the Middle East and Muslims in the West, and he has previously written on the topics of liberalism in the Mediterranean and radical nationalism in Syria and Lebanon.

• Introduction Part 1: Nationalism and Liberal Thought 1. The Role of Traditional Religious Scholars in Iraqi Politics from the Young Turk period until 1920: The Example of Yusuf al-Suwaydi Thomas Eich 2. Who is "liberal" in 1930s Iraq? Education as a Contested Terrain in a Nascent Public Sphere Peter Wien 3. Liberal Champions of Pan-Arabism: Syria’s Second Íizb al-Sha'b Fred H. Lawson 4. Nation, State, and Democracy in the Writings of Zaki al-Arsuzi Dalal Arsuzi-Elamir 5. Nationalism as a Cause: Arab Nationalism in the Writings of Ghassan Kanafani Orit Bashkin Part 2: Arab Intellectuals and Liberal Thought 6. Modernity, Romanticism, and Religion: Contradictions in the Writings of Farah Antun Alexander Flores 7. Progress and Liberal Thought in al-Hil'al, al-Man'ar, and al-Muqta'aaf before World War I Thomas Philipp 8. Liberal Democracy versus Fascist Totalitarianism in Egyptian Intellectual Discourse: The Case of Salama Musa and 'al-Majalla al-JadÐda' Israel Gershoni 9. The "Failure" of Radical Nationalism and the "Silence" of Liberal Thought in the Arab World Christoph Schumann

Christoph Schumann is Professor of Politics and Contemporary History of the Middle East at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His research focuses on political ideologies in the Middle East and Muslims in the West, and he has previously written on the topics of liberalism in the Mediterranean and radical nationalism in Syria and Lebanon.

• Introduction Part 1: Nationalism and Liberal Thought 1. The Role of Traditional Religious Scholars in Iraqi Politics from the Young Turk period until 1920: The Example of Yusuf al-Suwaydi Thomas Eich 2. Who is "liberal" in 1930s Iraq? Education as a Contested Terrain in a Nascent Public Sphere Peter Wien 3. Liberal Champions of Pan-Arabism: Syria’s Second Íizb al-Sha'b Fred H. Lawson 4. Nation, State, and Democracy in the Writings of Zaki al-Arsuzi Dalal Arsuzi-Elamir 5. Nationalism as a Cause: Arab Nationalism in the Writings of Ghassan Kanafani Orit Bashkin Part 2: Arab Intellectuals and Liberal Thought 6. Modernity, Romanticism, and Religion: Contradictions in the Writings of Farah Antun Alexander Flores 7. Progress and Liberal Thought in al-Hil'al, al-Man'ar, and al-Muqta'aaf before World War I Thomas Philipp 8. Liberal Democracy versus Fascist Totalitarianism in Egyptian Intellectual Discourse: The Case of Salama Musa and 'al-Majalla al-JadÐda' Israel Gershoni 9. The "Failure" of Radical Nationalism and the "Silence" of Liberal Thought in the Arab World Christoph Schumann

Christoph Schumann is Professor of Politics and Contemporary History of the Middle East at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His research focuses on political ideologies in the Middle East and Muslims in the West, and he has previously written on the topics of liberalism in the Mediterranean and radical nationalism in Syria and Lebanon.

• Introduction Part 1: Nationalism and Liberal Thought 1. The Role of Traditional Religious Scholars in Iraqi Politics from the Young Turk period until 1920: The Example of Yusuf al-Suwaydi Thomas Eich 2. Who is "liberal" in 1930s Iraq? Education as a Contested Terrain in a Nascent Public Sphere Peter Wien 3. Liberal Champions of Pan-Arabism: Syria’s Second Íizb al-Sha'b Fred H. Lawson 4. Nation, State, and Democracy in the Writings of Zaki al-Arsuzi Dalal Arsuzi-Elamir 5. Nationalism as a Cause: Arab Nationalism in the Writings of Ghassan Kanafani Orit Bashkin Part 2: Arab Intellectuals and Liberal Thought 6. Modernity, Romanticism, and Religion: Contradictions in the Writings of Farah Antun Alexander Flores 7. Progress and Liberal Thought in al-Hil'al, al-Man'ar, and al-Muqta'aaf before World War I Thomas Philipp 8. Liberal Democracy versus Fascist Totalitarianism in Egyptian Intellectual Discourse: The Case of Salama Musa and 'al-Majalla al-JadÐda' Israel Gershoni 9. The "Failure" of Radical Nationalism and the "Silence" of Liberal Thought in the Arab World Christoph Schumann