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.
Literary Optics
Literary Optics - 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 Literary Optics write by Maha AbdelMegeed. This book was released on 2024-03-15. Literary Optics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Literary Optics, Maha AbdelMegeed offers a compelling and far-reaching alternative to the traditional mode of analyzing Arabic literature through an encounter between Arabic narrative forms and European ones. Drawing upon close engagements with the works of canonical authors from the period, including Hassan Husni al-Tuwayrani, Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, Ali Mubarak, Francis Marrash, and ‘Abdallah al-Nadim, AbdelMegeed addresses not where these works emanate from but rather how and why they were drawn together to form a canon. In doing so, she rejects the expectation that these texts, through the trope of encounter, hold the explanatory key to modern Arabic literature. In this reformulation of Arabic literary history, AbdelMegeed argues that the canon is forged through an urgency to define a new form of political sovereignty and to make history visible. In doing so, she explores three pivotal concepts: the spectral (khayal), the trace (athar) and the collective (alnas). By examining the texts through these concepts, Literary Optics provides a remarkable intellectual history that delves into the aesthetic, philosophical, and political stakes of nineteenth-century Arabic literature.
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History - 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 Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History write by Beth Baron. This book was released on 2024. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays in this Oxford Handbook rethink the modern history of one of the most important and influential countries in the Middle East--Egypt. For a country and region so often understood in terms of religion and violence, this work explores environmental, medical, legal, cultural, and political histories. It gives readers an excellent view of the current debates in Egyptian history.
The Clarion of Syria
The Clarion of Syria - 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 Clarion of Syria write by Butrus al-Bustani. This book was released on 2019-04-30. The Clarion of Syria available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. When Nafir Suriyya—“The Clarion of Syria”—was penned between September 1860 and April 1861, its author Butrus al-Bustani, a major figure in the modern Arabic Renaissance, had witnessed his homeland undergo unprecedented violence in what many today consider Lebanon’s first civil war. Written during Ottoman and European investigations into the causes and culprits of the atrocities, The Clarion of Syria is both a commentary on the politics of state intervention and social upheaval, and a set of visions for the future of Syrian society in the wake of conflict. This translation makes a key historical document accessible for the first time to an English audience. An introduction by the translators sketches the history that led up to the civil strife in Mt. Lebanon, outlines a brief biography of Butrus al-Bustani, and provides an authoritative overview of the literary style and historiography of Nafir Suriyya. Rereading these pamphlets in the context of today’s political violence, in war-torn Syria and elsewhere in the Arab world, helps us gain a critical and historical perspective on sectarianism, foreign invasions, conflict resolution, Western interventionism, and nationalist tropes of reconciliation.
Empire of Salons
Empire of Salons - 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 Empire of Salons write by Helen Pfeifer. This book was released on 2022-03-29. Empire of Salons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A World Divided -- An Empire Connecting -- A Place in the Elite -- The Art of Conversation -- The Transmission of Knowledge -- An Empire Polarized.
