Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age
Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda
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- Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto
- Max Weiss, Princeton University, New Jersey
- Date Published: January 2020
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What is the relationship between thought and practice in the domains of language, literature and politics? Is thought the only standard by which to measure intellectual history? How did Arab intellectuals change and affect political, social, cultural and economic developments from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries? This volume offers a fundamental overhaul and revival of modern Arab intellectual history. Using Hourani's Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798–1939 (Cambridge, 1962) as a starting point, it reassesses Arabic cultural production and political thought in the light of current scholarship and extends the analysis beyond Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the outbreak of World War II. The chapters offer a mixture of broad-stroke history on the construction of 'the Muslim world', and the emergence of the rule of law and constitutionalism in the Ottoman empire, as well as case studies on individual Arab intellectuals that illuminate the transformation of modern Arabic thought.
Read more- Assesses the impact of the doyen of the field, the late Albert Hourani, fifty years after his seminal book Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939 (Cambridge, 1962)
- Introduces the paradigmatic Arabic term Nahda for Hourani's liberal age and relates it to the emerging field of global intellectual history
- Proposes a paradigmatic shift in the study of modern Middle Eastern history and Arabic literature, offering conceptual innovation, greater geographical coverage and deeper historical probing into the origins and transformations of Arab modernity
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'The empirically rich, theoretically sophisticated and intellectually innovative perspectives on the nahda and its legacies that this volume offers make it essential reading for students of Arab intellectual history.' Zachary Lockman, New York University
See more reviews'This collection of essays is an invaluable historiography and a must read for all graduate students and scholars of the modern Middle East and North Africa and for intellectual historians of all stripes.' Mary C. Wilson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
'… Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age presents a useful introductory showcase … The bibliography and the first few pages of the editors’ introduction, summarizing Arabic-language scholarship on the Nahda, will also be valuable resources for scholars and students …' Peter Hill, Journal of Islamic Studies
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- Date Published: January 2020
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316501825
- length: 461 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 152 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.65kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
General introduction
Time, language, mind and freedom: the Arabic Nahda in four words Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss
Part I. The Legacies of Albert Hourani:
1. Albert Hourani and the making of modern Middle East studies in the English-speaking world: a personal memoir Roger Owen
2. Albert's world: historicism, liberal imperialism and the struggle for Palestine, 1936–48 Jens Hanssen
Part II. The Expansion of the Political Imagination:
3. Debating political community in the age of reform, rebellion and empire, 1780–1820 Dina Rizk Khoury
4. The question of the Ottoman caliphate in global Muslim political thought, 1774–1914 Cemil Aydin
5. From rule of law to constitutionalism: Arab political thought in its Ottoman context, 1808–1908 Thomas Philipp
Part III. Means and Ends of the Nahda Experiment:
6. Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq (1804–87): the quest for another modernity Fawwaz Traboulsi
7. Liberal thought and the 'problem' of women:
1890s Cairo Marilyn Booth
8. 'Illiberal' thought in the liberal age: Yusuf al-Nabhani (1849–1932), dream-stories and the polemics against the modern era Amal Ghazal
Part IV. The Persistence of the Nahda:
9. Participation and critique: Arab intellectuals respond to the 'Ottoman revolution' Thomas Philipp
10. Men of capital: making money, making nation in Palestine Sherene Seikaly
11. The demise of 'the Liberal age'? 'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad and Egyptian responses to Fascism during World War II Israel Gershoni
Part V. The Afterlives of the Nahda in Comparative Perspective:
12. Indian and Arabic thought in the liberal age C. A. Bayly
13. The autumn of the Nahda in light of the Arab spring: some figures in the carpet Leyla Dakhli
Epilogue
14. The legacies of Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age Rashid Khalidi.
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