Imad Musbah Mukhaimar, The Crisis of Political Authority: A Study of Arab Political Thought (Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies, 2020). 189 pp. ISBN 978-9953-82-915-9
Researcher in Political Science, Imad Musbah Mukhaimar, seeks to provide an analytical and critical review of political power and its crisis in the Arab world, dealing with its sources of legitimacy and its philosophical reference in Arab political thought.
The author argues that the crisis of political power in the Arab world fundamentally derives from its intellectual condition, which is based on the irrational reconciliation between religious–cultural heritage, on the one hand, and Western modernist thought, on the other. He believes that religious–cultural heritage, because of its rigorist nature, has been unable to keep pace with the changes taking place in Arab societies, while Western modernist thought with its legal rationality that strives to grant legitimacy to the use of power has proved to be...
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