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Author Gasper, Michael

Title The Power of Representation : Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (508 pages)
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE -- The Formation and Emergence of the Peasant Question; INTRODUCTION; MONOPOLY, MARKWETS, AND THE GROWTH OF EXPORT AGRICULTURE; INSTRUMENTS OF THE STATE: TAX COLLECTION AND THE MIXED COURTS; THE PEASANT IN THE EARLY 'AFANDI IMAGINATION; CIVILIZING, REFORM, AND SUBJECTIVITY; AL-'AFGHANI, 'ABDUH, ISLAMIC REFORM, AND HISTORY-MAKING; CITY VERSUS COUNTRY; BACKWARD PEASANTS AND CIVILIZED 'AFANDIS; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER TWO -- People, Peasants, and Intellectuals
Summary Traces the links between the development of modern Egyptian identity and the burgeoning Islamic modernist movement from the mid-1870s until the 1910s
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Subject National characteristics, Egyptian.
Peasants -- Egypt -- History
Islamic modernism -- Egypt -- History
Egyptians.
Egyptians.
Intellectual life.
Islamic modernism.
National characteristics, Egyptian.
Peasants.
SUBJECT Egypt -- Intellectual life
Subject Egypt.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804769808
080476980X