Mohammed A. Bamyeh is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and the editor of International Sociology Review of Books. He specializes in the study of social movements and revolutions, the comparative history of ideas and global sociology.

• IntroductionThe Social Dynamism and the Organic Intellectual - Mohammed A. BamyehPART I: INTELLECTUALS AS MODERN VANGUARD2.Nazik al-'Abid and the Nur al-Fayha' Society: Independent Modernity, Colonial Threat and the Space of Women - Elizabeth Williams3.Edification Between Sect and Nation: Murad Farag and al-Tahdhib 1901-03 - Lital Levy4.The Public Intellectual and the Secret Society: Al-Kawakibi and his Legacy - Sanna MakhloufPART II: INTELLECTUALS AS DEFENDERS OF HERITAGE5.The 'Alim as Public Intellectual: Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi as a Scholar-Activist - Steve Tamari6.Founders of Islam in Republican Turkey: Kisakürek and Topçu - Michelangelo Guida7.Islamist Intellectuals and Women in Turkey - Fatma TütüncüPART III: INTELLECTUALS AS MIGRANTS8.Leading Arab Intellectuals in the West: the Cases of Mohamed Arkoun and Edward Said - Thomas Brisson9.Some Distinctive Features of Mahjar Arab Intellectuals: On Hisham Sharabi and Halim Barakat - Nedal al-MousaConclusion

Mohammed A. Bamyeh is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and the editor of International Sociology Review of Books. He specializes in the study of social movements and revolutions, the comparative history of ideas and global sociology.

• IntroductionThe Social Dynamism and the Organic Intellectual - Mohammed A. BamyehPART I: INTELLECTUALS AS MODERN VANGUARD2.Nazik al-'Abid and the Nur al-Fayha' Society: Independent Modernity, Colonial Threat and the Space of Women - Elizabeth Williams3.Edification Between Sect and Nation: Murad Farag and al-Tahdhib 1901-03 - Lital Levy4.The Public Intellectual and the Secret Society: Al-Kawakibi and his Legacy - Sanna MakhloufPART II: INTELLECTUALS AS DEFENDERS OF HERITAGE5.The 'Alim as Public Intellectual: Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi as a Scholar-Activist - Steve Tamari6.Founders of Islam in Republican Turkey: Kisakürek and Topçu - Michelangelo Guida7.Islamist Intellectuals and Women in Turkey - Fatma TütüncüPART III: INTELLECTUALS AS MIGRANTS8.Leading Arab Intellectuals in the West: the Cases of Mohamed Arkoun and Edward Said - Thomas Brisson9.Some Distinctive Features of Mahjar Arab Intellectuals: On Hisham Sharabi and Halim Barakat - Nedal al-MousaConclusion