Gatekeepers of the Arab Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gatekeepers of the Arab Past write by Yoav Di-Capua. This book was released on 2009-09-09. Gatekeepers of the Arab Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking study illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. The first comprehensive analysis of a Middle Eastern intellectual tradition, Gatekeepers of the Past examines a system of knowledge that replaced the intellectual and methodological conventions of Islamic historiography only at the very end of the nineteenth century. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historucal literature in Arabic, Yoav Di-Capua explores Egyptian historical thought, examines the careers of numerous critical historians, and traces this tradition's uneasy relationship with colonial forms of knowledge as well as with the post-colonial state.
Gatekeepers of the Arab Past
Gatekeepers of the Arab Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gatekeepers of the Arab Past write by Yoav Di-Capua. This book was released on 2009-09-09. Gatekeepers of the Arab Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An enormous contribution to the study of Egyptian history writing and historiography. Sure to become the basic manual for understanding the trajectory of modern Egyptian thinking."—Roger Owen, author of State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East
Utopia and Civilization in the Arab Nahda
Utopia and Civilization in the Arab Nahda - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Utopia and Civilization in the Arab Nahda write by Peter Hill. This book was released on 2020-01-16. Utopia and Civilization in the Arab Nahda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the 'Nahda', a cultural renaissance in the Arab world, through the utopian visions of Arab intellectuals during the nineteenth century.
The Making of the Arab Intellectual
The Making of the Arab Intellectual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of the Arab Intellectual write by Dyala Hamzah. This book was released on 2012-11-27. The Making of the Arab Intellectual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the wake of the Ottoman Empire’s nineteenth-century reforms, as guilds waned and new professions emerged, the scholarly ‘estate’ underwent social differentiation. Some found employment in the state’s new institutions as translators, teachers and editors, whilst others resisted civil servant status. Gradually, the scholar morphed into the public writer. Despite his fledgling status, he catered for the public interest all the more so since new professionals such as doctors, engineers and lawyers endorsed this latest social role as an integral part of their own self-image. This dual preoccupation with self-definition and all things public is the central concern of this book. Focusing on the period after the tax-farming scholar took the bow and before the alienated intellectual prevailed on the contemporary Arab cultural scene, it situates the making of the Arab intellectual within the dysfunctional space of competing states’ interests known as the ‘Nahda’. Located between Empire and Colony, the emerging Arab public sphere was a space of over- and under-regulation, hindering accountability and upsetting allegiances. The communities that Arab intellectuals imagined, including the Pan-Islamic, Pan-Arab and socialist sat astride many a polity and never became contained by post-colonial states. Examining a range of canonical and less canonical authors, this interdisciplinary approach to The Making of the Modern Arab Intellectual will be of interest to students and scholars of the Middle East, history, political science, comparative literature and philosophy.
The Last Nahdawi
The Last Nahdawi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Nahdawi write by Hussam R. Ahmed. This book was released on 2021-06-15. The Last Nahdawi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taha Hussein (1889–1973) is one of Egypt's most iconic figures. A graduate of al-Azhar, Egypt's oldest university, a civil servant and public intellectual, and ultimately Egyptian Minister of Public Instruction, Hussein was central to key social and political developments in Egypt during the parliamentary period between 1922 and 1952. Influential in the introduction of a new secular university and a burgeoning press in Egypt—and prominent in public debates over nationalism and the roles of religion, women, and education in making a modern independent nation—Hussein remains a subject of continued admiration and controversy to this day. The Last Nahdawi offers the first biography of Hussein in which his intellectual outlook and public career are taken equally seriously. Examining Hussein's actions against the backdrop of his complex relationship with the Egyptian state, the religious establishment, and the French government, Hussam R. Ahmed reveals modern Egypt's cultural influence in the Arab and Islamic world within the various structural changes and political processes of the parliamentary period. Ahmed offers both a history of modern state formation, revealing how the Egyptian state came to hold such a strong grip over culture and education—and a compelling examination of the life of the country's most renowned intellectual.
