1st Edition
The Making of the Arab Intellectual Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood
1. Introduction: The Making of the Arab Intellectual: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood Dyala Hamzah 2. Pharaoh’s Revenge: Translation, Literary History and Colonial Ambivalence Samah Selim 3. Public Deliberations of the Self in Fin-de-Siècle Egypt (1880-1910) Michael Gasper 4. Inscribing Socialism into the Nahda: al-Muqtataf, al-Hilal, and the Construction of a Leftist Reformist Worldview, 1880-1914 Ilham Khuri-Makdisi 5. From ‘Ilm to Sihafa or the Politics of the Public Interest (Maslaha): Muhammad Rashîd Rida and his journal al-Manar (1898-1935) Dyala Hamzah 6. Partitioned Pasts: Arab Jewish Intellectuals and the Case of Esther Azhari Moyal, 1873-1948 Lital Levy 7. The "Mahjar" as literary and political territory in the first decades of the 20th century: the example of Amîn Rîhânî (1876-1940) Leyla Dakhli 8. The Generation of Broad Expectations: Nationalism, Education, and Autobiography in Syria and Lebanon, 1930-1958 Christoph Schumann 9. Waiting for the Superman: A New Generation of Arab Nationalists in 1930s Iraq Peter Wien 10. Afterword
Biography
Dyala Hamzah is Assistant Professor of Middle East History at the Université de Montréal. She holds an M. Phil. in Philosophy from the Sorbonne and a Ph.D. in History and Islamic Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin and the EHESS (Paris). She is currently completing a book entitled Muhammad Rashīd Ridā (1865–1935) ou le “Tournant Salafiste”. Intérêt général, Islam et Opinion Publique dans l’Egypte Coloniale.
"This compilation presents a very rich analysis of the intellectual profile of the Arab World, which was lost somewhere between history and historiography. In addition, this book reintroduces the Jewish contribution to the Arab intellectual movements, which was almost forgotten."
Omair Anas
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