The making of the Arab intellectual (1880-1960)
Subtitle: empire, public sphere and the colonial coordinates of selfhood
By: edited by Dyala Hamzah
Series: SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East -- 18
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780415488341; 9780203080474
Subjects: Intellectuals; Intellectual life; Arab countries; Learning and scholarship; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the making of the Arab intellectual (1880-1960) : empire, public sphere and the colonial coordinates of selfhood / Dyala Hamzah; title: Pharaoh's revenge : translation, literary history and colonial ambivalence / Samah Selim; title: Public deliberations of the self in fin-de-siècle Egypt / Michael Gasper; title: Inscribing socialism into the nahãa : al-Muqtạtaf, al-Hilāl, and the construction of a leftist reformist worldview, 1880-1914 / Ilham Khuri-Makdisi; title: From ʻIlm to Sihafa or the politics of the public interest (maṣlaḥa) : Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā and his journal al-Manār (1898-1935) / Dyala Hamzah; title: Partitioned pasts : Arab Jewish intellectuals and the case of Esther Azhar/Moyal (1873-1948) / Lital Levy; title: The mahjar as literary and political territory in the first decades of the twentieth century : the example of Amīn Rīḥānī (1876-1940) / Leyla Dakhli; title: The generation of broad expectations : nationalism, education, and autobiography in Syria and Lebanon, 1930-1958 / Christoph Schumann; title: Waiting for the superman : a new generation of Arab nationalists in 1930s Iraq / Peter Wien.