Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. A Note on Transliteration and Translation ix
4. Prologue xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Time of History
7. 1 O Youth, O Arabs, O Nationalists: Recalling the High Tides of Anticolonial Pan-Arabism 27
8. 2 Dreams of a Dual Birth: Socialist Lebanon’s Theoretical Imaginary 53
9. 3 June 1967 and Its Historiographical Afterlives 82
10. Part II. Times of the Sociocultural
11. 4 Paradoxes of Emancipation: Revolution and Power in Light of Mao 113
12. 5 Exit Marx/Enter Ibn Khaldun: Wartime Disenchantment and Critique 138
13. 6 Traveling Theory and Political Practice: Orientalism in the Age of the Islamic Revolution 165
14. Epilogue 187
15. Acknowledgments 195
16. Notes 201
17. Bibliography 241
18. Index 255