Arabic thought against the authoritarian age : towards an intellectual history of the present / edited by Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto ; Max Weiss, Princeton University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanssen, Jens, editor.

Weiss, Max, 1977- editor.

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual life.

Arab countries--Intellectual life--20th century.

Arab countries.

Arab countries--Intellectual life--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 441 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: towards a postwar intellectual history of the Arab world / Max Weiss and Jens Hanssen

Changing the Arab intellectual guard: on the fall of the udaba,1940 -1960 / Yoav Di Capua, University of Texas, Austin

Arabic thought in the radical age: Emile Habibi, the israeli Communist Party and the production of Arab Jewish radicalism, 1946-1961 / Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago

Political praxis in the Gulf: Ahmad al-Khatib and the movement of Arab nationalists, 1948-1969

Abdel Razzaq Takriti, University of Houston

Modernism in translation: poetry and intellectual history in Beirut

Robyn Creswell, Yale University

Regional specificities of modern Arab thought: Morocco since the liberal age / Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston

Sidelining ideology: Arab theory in the metropole and periphery, circa 1977 / Fadi Bardawil, University of Chicago

Mosaic, melting pot, pressure cooker: the religious, the secular, and the sectarian in twentieth-century Syrian social thought / Max Weiss, Princeton University

Looking for "the women question" in Algeria and Tunisia: ideas, political language and female actors before and after independence / Natalya Vince, University of Portsmouth

Egyptian workers in the "liberal age" and beyond

Joel Beinin, Stanford University

The redemption of women's liberation: reviving Qasim Amin in contemporary Egypt

Ellen Mclarney, Duke University

Turath as critique: Hassan Hanafi and the political subject in modern Arabic thought / Yasmeen Daifallah, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Summoning the spirit of Taha Husayn's enlightenment project: the nahda revival of qadaya wa-shahadat in the 1990s / Suzanne Kassab, University of Bonn

Revolution as ready-made: art, aesthetics, Arab uprisings / Negar Azimi, Bidoun Magazine

For a third nahda / Elias Khoury (translated by Max Weiss, with Jens Hanssen)

Where are the intellectuals in the Syrian revolution? / Rosa Yasin Hasan (translated by Max Weiss)

The intellectuals and the revolution in Syria

Yasin al-Hajj Salih (translated by Max Weiss).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9781108147781

110814778X

Publisher Number:

99976722471

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