This chapter addresses the forms taken by utopian thinking and writing in the Nahda. It first examines the notion of ‘utopia’ and its parallels in older Arabic traditions, and then its relevance to parts of the Beiruti and Cairene Nahda already examined. Next it presents a detailed study of the Aleppine writer Fransīs Marrāsh’s remarkable utopian narrative Ghābat al-Ḥaqq; and, finally, turns to Marrāsh’s later work of the early 1870s, to consider how utopian impulses could lead to a sharp critique of the Nahda’s civilising projects.