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Publication details [#25141]

Lewis, Bernard. 1988. The political language of Islam. University of Chicago Press. 168 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | language and culture | language status | language use | political language

Language as a subject

Arabic | English | Persian | Turkish

Annotation

This book investigates what the political language learns about historical conceptualizations of political action and political relations within three Middle Eastern cultures -Arabic, Perisan and Turkish-; and how these societies in the 19th and 2Oth centuries have given linguistic expression to Western political ideas they came in contact with.

Reviewed by

Reynolds, Dwight F. 1990. Review of B.Lewis (1988: `The political language of Islam').