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The power of representation : publics, peasants, and Islam in Egypt / Michael Ezekiel Gasper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gasper, Michael Ezekiel, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Egyptian.
- Peasants--Egypt--History.
- Peasants.
- Islamic modernism--Egypt--History.
- Islamic modernism.
- Egypt--Intellectual life.
- Egypt.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (508 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Traces the links between the development of modern Egyptian identity and the burgeoning Islamic modernist movement from the mid-1870's until the 1910's.
- Contents:
- The formation and the emergence of the peasant question
- People, peasants, and intellectuals
- Five peasant characters in search of bourgeois identity or afandis in gallabiyas
- Scientific agriculture : cultivators, agriculturalists or peasants?
- The new peasant, colonial identity and the modern state.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804769808
- 080476980X
- OCLC:
- 793166879
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