The Making of the Arab Intellectual : Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood.

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...

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Main Author:	Hamzah, Dyala
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Series:	SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East.
Subjects:	1800-1999 Learning and scholarship > Social aspects > Arab countries > History > 19th century. Learning and scholarship > Social aspects > Arab countries > History > 20th century. Intellectuals > Arab countries > History > 19th century. Intellectuals > Arab countries > History > 20th century. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes. Intellectual life Intellectuals Learning and scholarship > Social aspects Arab countries > Intellectual life > 19th century. Arab countries > Intellectual life > 20th century. Arab countries History
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : the making of the Arab intellectual (1880-1960) : empire, public sphere and the colonial coordinates of selfhood / Dyala Hamzah
Pharaoh's revenge : translation, literary history and colonial ambivalence / Samah Selim
Public deliberations of the self in fin-de-siècle Egypt / Michael Gasper
Inscribing socialism into the nahãa : al-Muqtạtaf, al-Hilāl, and the construction of a leftist reformist worldview, 1880-1914 / Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
From ʻIlm to Sihafa or the politics of the public interest (maṣlaḥa) : Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā and his journal al-Manār (1898-1935) / Dyala Hamzah
Partitioned pasts : Arab Jewish intellectuals and the case of Esther Azhar/Moyal (1873-1948) / Lital Levy
The mahjar as literary and political territory in the first decades of the twentieth century : the example of Amīn Rīḥānī (1876-1940) / Leyla Dakhli
The generation of broad expectations : nationalism, education, and autobiography in Syria and Lebanon, 1930-1958 / Christoph Schumann
Waiting for the superman : a new generation of Arab nationalists in 1930s Iraq / Peter Wien.

The Making of the Arab Intellectual : Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood.

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