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1 online resource (290 pages) |
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SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East |
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SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 civil servant status. Gradually, the scholar morphed into the public writer. Despite his fledgling status, he catered for the public interest all the more so since new professionals such as doctors, engineers and lawyers endorsed this latest social role as an integral part of their own self-image. This dual p |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Learning and scholarship -- Social aspects -- Arab countries -- History -- 19th century
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Learning and scholarship -- Social aspects -- Arab countries -- History -- 20th century
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Intellectuals -- Arab countries -- History -- 19th century
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Intellectuals -- Arab countries -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes.
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Intellectual life
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Intellectuals
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Learning and scholarship -- Social aspects
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Arab countries -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
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Arab countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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Arab countries
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136167584 |
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1136167587 |
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9780203080474 |
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0203080475 |
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