Elie Kedourie C.B.E., FBA (25 January 1926-29 June 1992) was a British historian of the Middle East. He wrote from a conservative perspective, dissenting from many points of view taken as orthodox in the field. He was at the London School of Economics (LSE) from 1953 to 1990, becoming Professor of Politics. CBE can stand for: Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a grade in the Order of the British Empire Council of Biology Editors, a former name of the Council of Science Editors, who publish the CBE style guide Calgary Board of Education, a formation of multiple Employees to... The British Academy is the United Kingdoms national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. ... Jump to: navigation, search January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... Jump to: navigation, search The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or simply the LSE, is a specialist university in London. ...

He was born in Baghdad; his background was Iraqi Jewish and he grew up in the Jewish quarter, attending the Alliance Française primary school and then the Shammash High School. He took an undergraduate degree at the LSE. Jump to: navigation, search Average temperature (red) and precipitations (blue) in Baghdad Baghdad (Arabic: ) is the capital of Iraq and the Baghdad Province. ...

Kedourie's doctoral thesis (later England and the Middle East) was critical inter alia of Britain's inter-war role in Iraq. It was refused the degree of D. Phil. of the University of Oxford, but was published in 1956. It castigated British policy makers, for their encouragement of Arab nationalism, and contained a very negative view of T. E. Lawrence. He refused to make changes requested by one of the examiners, and so did not proceed to take the degree. Michael Oakeshott brought Kedourie back to the LSE in 1953. Jump to: navigation, search The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Arab nationalism refers to a common nationalist ideology in wider Arab world. ... Jump to: navigation, search Thomas Edward Lawrence (August 16, 1888 – May 19, 1935), professionally known as T.E. Lawrence and, later, T.E. Shaw, but most famously known as Lawrence of Arabia, became famous for his role as a British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt of 1916 to 1918. ... Michael Joseph Oakeshott (11 December 1901 - 19 December 1990) was an English philosopher with particular interests in political thought, the nature of history as a form of knowledge, the philosophies of education and religion, and aesthetics. ...

In 1964 Kedourie was founder and Editor of the learned journal Middle Eastern Studies. Jump to: navigation, search 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. ... Middle Eastern Studies is a name given to a number of academic programs associated with the study of the culture, politics, economy, and geography of the Middle East, an area that is generally interpreted to cover a range of nations extending from North Africa in the west to the Chinese...

His 1960 book Nationalism provoked later replies, in Thought and Change' (1964), and Nations and Nationalism' (1983), by his LSE colleague Ernest Gellner, contesting Kedourie's theories on the potential eliminability of nationalist thought. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs . ...

Kedourie was critical of Marxist interpretations of history and of nationalism, which he described as 'anti-individualist, despotic, racist, and violent'. He claimed it had turned the Middle East into 'a wilderness of tigers'. Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Nationalism is an ideology which holds that the nation, ethnicity or national identity is a fundamental unit of human social life, and makes certain political claims based upon that belief; above all, the claim that the nation is the only legitimate basis for the state, and... An African-American drinks out of a water fountain marked for colored in 1939 at a street car terminal in Oklahoma City. ...

Kedourie also documented and criticised as what he saw as the British Empire's debilitation through over-indulgence in self-criticism. He in 1970 attacked another British celebrity, Arnold J. Toynbee, in an essay The Chatham House Version, holding him responsible, in part, for British imperial abdication of responsibility for the state of the Middle East. Jump to: navigation, search The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps The British Empire was the worlds first global power, a product of the European Age of Exploration that began with the global maritime empires of Portugal and Spain... Jump to: navigation, search Arnold Joseph Toynbee (April 14, 1889 - October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934-1961, was a synthesis of global history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and...

Books

• England and the Middle East: The Vital Years 1914-1921 (1956) later as England and the Middle East; the destruction of the Ottoman Empire 1914-1921
• Nationalism (1960) revised edition 1993
• Afghani and 'Abduh: An essay on religious unbelief and political activism in modern Islam (1966)
• The Chatham House Version: And Other Middle Eastern Studies (1970)
• Nationalism in Asia and Africa (1970) editor
• Arabic Political Memoirs and Other Studies (1974)
• In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth: The McMahon-Husayn Correspondance and its Interpretations 1914-1939 (1976)
• Middle Eastern Economy: Studies in Economics and Economic History (1976)
• The Jewish World: Revelation, Prophecy and History (1979) editor, as The Jewish World: History and Culture of the Jewish World (US)
• Islam in the Modern World and Other Studies (1980)
• Towards a Modern Iran; Studies in Thought, Politics and Society (1980) editor with Sylvia G. Haim
• Modern Egypt: Studies In Politics And Society (1980) editor
• Zionism And Arabism In Palestine And Israel (1982) editor with Sylvia G. Haim
• The Crossman Confessions and Other Essays in Politics, History and Religion (1984)
• Diamonds into Glass: The Government and the Universities (1988)
• Essays on the Economic History of the Middle East (1988) editor with Sylvia G. Haim
• Democracy and Arab Political Culture (1992)
• Politics in the Middle East (1992)
• Spain and the Jews: The Sephardi Experience, 1492 and After (1992)
• Hegel & Marx: Introductory Lectures (1995)

External link

• Elie Kedourie, entry in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing.
• Policy and the Academy: An Illicit Relationship?, on Kedourie's politics, by Martin Kramer.