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1. The Making of the Arab Intellectual

   Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood

   Edited by Dyala Hamzah

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   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...

   To Be Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge