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Presidential Address—MESA 1983: Our Rôles as Scholars and Citizens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Richard T. Antoun
Richard T. Antoun*
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Binghamton
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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

I wish to speak to you tonight about common dilemmas we face as scholars, citizens, and human beings. Each of these rôles involves distinctive obligations and at the same time casts a shadow on the others. Let me begin by discussing a subject that has enthralled or distracted (depending on your point of view) many members of our association over the last few years, the subject of religious resurgence. I shall confine my remarks to Islamic resurgence, since my own research in Jordan and Iran makes me somewhat more familiar with the phenomenon as it works in local contexts there, although the questions raised may quite possibly apply to the phenomena of Jewish and Christian resurgence.

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Research Article
Information
Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , July 1984 , pp. 3 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 1984

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