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Gatekeepers of the Arab past : historians and history writing in twentieth-century Egypt / Yoav Di-Capua.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Di-Capua, Yoav, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography--Egypt.
- Historiography.
- Nationalism--Egypt.
- Nationalism.
- Historians--Egypt.
- Historians.
- Egypt--Historiography.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (407 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This groundbreaking study illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. The first comprehensive analysis of a Middle Eastern intellectual tradition, Gatekeepers of the Past examines a system of knowledge that replaced the intellectual and methodological conventions of Islamic historiography only at the very end of the nineteenth century. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, Yoav Di-Capua explores Egyptian historical thought, examines the careers of numerous critical historians, and traces this tradition's uneasy relationship with colonial forms of knowledge as well as with the post-colonial state.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Historicizing Ottoman Egypt 1890-1906
- 2. Talking History 1906-1920
- 3. The `Ābdīn House Of Records The 1920's
- 4. Competing For History 1930-1952
- 5. Ghurbāl's School 1930-1952
- 6. Partisan Historiography The 1940's And Beyond
- 7. Demonstrating History The 1950's
- 8. Controlling History The 1960's
- 9. Authoritarian Pluralism 1970-2000
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612359941
- 9781282359949
- 1282359940
- 9780520944817
- 052094481X
- OCLC:
- 794663663
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