Modern Arab historiography
Subtitle: historical discourse and the nation-state
By: Youssef M. Choueiri.
Contributors: Choueiri, Youssef M., 1948-
Edition: [Rev. ed.]
Series: Culture and civilisation in the Middle East
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Historiography -- Arab countries.; Nationalism -- Arab countries.; Arab countries -- Historiography.
Description: "This book discusses the development of modern Arab historiography and its study of the nation-state in the nineteenth century, and analyses the work of three contemporary Arab historians from Egypt, the Lebanon and Morocco. An important and highly readable account, it reaffirms the importance of historiography and proposes a revision of the manner in which modern Arab thought has hitherto been classified and interpreted."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Arab history and the nation-state. London ;  New York : Routledge, 1989.