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A History of Social Justice and Political Power in the Middle East: The Circle of Justice From Mesopotamia to Globalization

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From ancient Mesopotamia into the 20th century, “the Circle of Justice” as a concept has pervaded Middle Eastern political thought and underpinned the exercise of power in the Middle East. The Circle of Justice depicts graphically how a government’s justice toward the population generates political power, military strength, prosperity, and good administration.

This book traces this set of relationships from its earliest appearance in the political writings of the Sumerians through four millennia of Middle Eastern culture. It explores how people conceptualized and acted upon this powerful insight, how they portrayed it in symbol, painting, and story, and how they transmitted it from one regime to the next. Moving towards the modern day, the creator shows how, even if the Circle of Justice was once in large part dropped from political discourse, it did not disappear from people’s political culture and expectations of government. The book demonstrates the Circle’s relevance to the Iranian Revolution and the upward push of Islamist movements in all places the Middle East, and suggests how the concept that remains relevant in an age of capitalism.

A “will have to read” for students, policymakers, and unusual citizens, this book will be the most important contribution to the areas of political history, political theory, Middle East studies and Orientalism.


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