Arab Nahdah

The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement

AvAbdulrazzak Patel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Del i serien Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

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Beskrivning

To understand today's Arab thinking, you need to go back to the beginnings of modernity: the nahdah or Arab renaissance of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Abdulrazzak Patel enhances our understanding of the nahdah and its intellectuals, looking back to its origins in the 1700s and taking into account important internal factors alongside external forces. He explores the key factors that contributed to the rise and development of the nahdah, he introduces the humanist movement of the period that was the driving force behind much of the linguistic, literary and educational activity. Drawing on intellectual history, literary history and postcolonial studies, he argues that the nahdah was the product of native development and foreign assistance and that nahdah reformist thought was hybrid in nature. Overall, this study highlights the complexity of the movement and offers a more pluralist history of the period.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-06-18
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:546 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748640690

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Dr Patel graduated from the University of Exeter with a PhD in Arabic and Islamic studies in 2007. He then worked as a Teaching Fellow at Exeter before moving to the University of Oxford in 2008 where he has been pursuing a program of research from his doctoral work and been working on a major new project on the rise and development of the Arab nahḍah. He has already published several articles on the subject in the top journals of his field.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroduction: Perspectives, Paradigms and ParametersContemporary Interpretations of the nahḍah: Tradition, Modernity and the Arab IntellectualThe Reintegration of Pre-modern Christians into the Mainstream of Arabic Literature and the Creation of an Inter-religious Cultural SpaceGuardians of the Pre-modern Arab-Islamic Humanist Tradition: Legends without a Legacy, a tradition without heirsLanguage Reform and Controversy: the al-Shartūnīs Respond in Defence of the Pre-modern Humanist TraditionArabism, Patriotism and Ottomanism as means to ReformArab intellectuals and the West: Borrowing for the Sake of ProgressEducation, Reform and Enlightened AzharīsEnacting reform: Local Agents, Statesmen, Missionaries and the Evolution of a Cultural InfrastructureConclusionBibliographyIndex