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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453589603321

Autore

Breen Michael <1952->

Titolo

Kim Jong-il [[electronic resource] ] : North Korea's Dear Leader / / Michael Breen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : J. Wiley & Sons, 2012

ISBN

1-118-15379-0

1-283-40107-X

9786613401076

1-118-15380-4

Edizione

[Rev. and updated ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 183 p., [8] p. of plates ) : ill. (some col.)

Disciplina

951.93043092

B

Soggetti

Dictators - Korea (North)

Electronic books.

Korea (North) Biography

Korea (North) Politics and government

Korea (North) Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Chapter 1 Dark Country 1 Pool of Darkness 4 Who Is Charlie Chaplin? 7 Teaching Journalists 9 Chapter 2 Two States 15 Kim Il-sung and the Division of Korea 19 The Cold War 23 Chapter 3 Going Nuclear 29 North Korean Aggression in 2010 31 Weapons of Mass Destruction 34 Anti-Americanism in South Korea 37 Chapter 4 Dear Boy 41 Childhood and War 44 Teaching the Teachers 50 Chapter 5 Dear Successor 55 How Kim Jong-il Was Chosen 57 Dear Leader and His Loves 62 Chapter 6 Portrait of the Artist 67 Limiting the Joy 69 Kim Turns to Kidnapping 72 Chapter 7 Is Jong-il Evil? 77 Kim the Micromanager 79 The Temper and the Humor 84 How His People See Him 87 The Malignant Narcissist Theory 89 Chapter 8 Country of the Lie 93 The Secret to North Korean Communism 95 Race-Based Nationalism 99 Trouble with the Truth 101 The Control on Information 103 Chapter 9 The Gulag 107 The Gulag 109 The Story of Lee Soon-ok 110 Kang Chol-hwan: Child of the Camps 116 Chapter 10 The One Fat



Man 121 A Journey through Russia 123 The Struggle for Food 124 Escaping to China 127 Chapter 11 Submerging Market 131 Looking in Vain for Signs of Change 134 Tourists from South Korea 136 Business Zones for China and South Korea 137 Chapter 12 Follow the Money 141 Chapter 13 Collision Course 145 Notes 151 Korean Names 163 Recommended Reading 167 About the Author 173 Index 175

Sommario/riassunto

An expert on North Korea sheds new light on the enigmatic tyrant From his goose-stepping military parades to his clownish macho swagger, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is an odd amalgam of political cartoon and global menace. In charge of a nuclear arsenal he's threatened to use against the U.S.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820198203321

Autore

Woerner-Powell Tom

Titolo

Another road to Damascus : an integrative approach to 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri (1880-1883) / / Tom Woerner-Powell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-11-049769-7

3-11-049951-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 pages)

Disciplina

965.03092

Soggetti

Politicians - Algeria

Islam - Africa, North - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1.0 Chapter One - Sīrah Sayfiyyah: ʿAbd al-Qādir in North Africa, 1833-1848 -- 2.0 Chapter Two - ʿAbd al-Qādir's Risālah on Hijrah -- 3.0 Chapter Three - Exile and Imprisonment on the Road to Damascus; 1848-1852 -- 4.0 Chapter Four - From Istanbul to Damascus, 1853-1864 -- 5.0 Chapter Five - Sīrah Ṣūfiyyah: Sufism, Suspicion, and the Kitāb al-Mawāqif; 1864-1883 -- 6.0 Conclusion -- Afterword -- Bibliography - Archival



Sources -- Appendix A - ʿAbd al-Qādir's Risālah on Hijrah -- Appendix B - ʿAbd al-Qādir's Mawqif #254 ('He Is [Like] That') -- Index -- Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text challenges existing writing on 'Abd al-Qādir al-Jazā'irī which divides his life into two juxtaposed phases separated by narratives of conversion: from Francophobia to Francophilia, from militarism to pacifism, from activism to quietism, from Islamism to pluralism, from politics to religion. This work's interdisciplinary approach demonstrates that these narratives cannot be sustained in light of the evidence. Rather, they can be shown to originate in specific historical, cultural, and methodological tendencies within western societies and academies. Drawing on primary materials including archival documents and selections from his own writing, it constructively critiques his reception in the literature while advancing a continuous and contextualised account of his life and ideas. These include the relating of his ethico-religious and jurisprudential concerns to his political decision-making, and a resituating of his mystical writings within a definite moral, epistemological, and political context. By problematising these interpretive issues, this thesis aims at opening new avenues for understanding even as it offers its own solutions. In so doing, this study contributes to discussions on Sufism, political Islam, and east-west relations.