The making of the Arab intellectual (1880-1960) : empire, public sphere and the colonial coordinates of selfhood /

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Imprint:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Description:x, 278 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; 18
SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; 18.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8968863
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Other authors / contributors:Hamzah, Dyala.
ISBN:9780415488341 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415488346 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780203080474 (e-book)
0203080475 (e-book)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-267) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on transliteration
  • 1. Introduction: the making of the Arab intellectual (1880-1960): empire, public sphere and the colonial coordinates of selfhood
  • 2. Pharaoh's revenge: translation, literary history and colonial ambivalence
  • 3. Public deliberations of the self in fin-de-siècle Egypt
  • 4. Inscribing socialism into the Nahda: al-Muqtataf, al-Hilal, and the construction of a Leftist reformist worldview, 1880-1914
  • 5. From 'ilm to Sihafa or the politics of the public interest (maslaha): Muhammad Rashid Rida and his journal al-Manar (1898-1935)
  • 6. Partitioned pasts: Arab Jewish intellectuals and the case of Esther Azhari Moyal (1873-1948)
  • 7. The Mahjar as literary and political territory in the first decades of the twentieth century: the example of Amin Rihani (1876-1940)
  • 8. The generation of broad expectations: nationalism, education, and autobiography in Syria and Lebanon, 1930-1958
  • 9. Waiting for the Superman: a new generation of Arab nationalists in 1930s Iraq
  • Bibliography
  • Periodicals consulted
  • Index