The Arab Nahdah : the making of the intellectual and humanist movement / Abdulrazzak Patel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patel, Abdulrazzak.

Series:

Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature

Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic literature--1801---Western influences.

Arabic literature.

Arab countries--Intellectual life.

Arab countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

To understand today's Arab thinking, you need to go back to the beginnings of modernity: the nahdah or Arab renaissance of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Abdulrazzak Patel enhances our understanding of the nahdah and its intellectuals, looking back to its origins in the 1700s and taking into account important internal factors alongside external forces. He explores the key factors that contributed to the rise and development of the nahdah, he introduces the humanist movement of the period that was the driving force behind much of the linguistic, literary and educational activity. Drawing on intellectual history, literary history and postcolonial studies, he argues that the nahdah was the product of native development and foreign assistance and that nahdah reformist thought was hybrid in nature. Overall, this study highlights the complexity of the movement and offers a more pluralist history of the period.

Contents:

Introduction : perspectives, paradigms and parameters

Contemporary interpretations of the nahḍah : tradition, modernity and the Arab intellectual

The reintegration of pre-modern Christians into the mainstream of Arabic literature and the creation of an inter-religious cultural space

Guardians of the pre-modern Arab-Islamic humanist tradition : legends without a legacy, a tradition without heirs

Language reform and controversy : the al-Shartūnīs respond in defence of the pre-modern humanist tradition

Arabism, patriotism and Ottomanism as means to reform

Arab intellectuals and the west : borrowing for the sake of progress

Education, reform and enlightened Azharīs

Enacting reform : local agents, statesmen, missionaries and the evolution of a cultural infrastructure.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-7790-9

OCLC:

853238659