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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Arab countries.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 441 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In the wake of the Arab uprisings, the Middle East descended into a frenzy of political turmoil and unprecedented human tragedy which reinforced regrettable stereotypes about the moribund state of Arab intellectual and cultural life. This volume sheds important light on diverse facets of the post-war Arab world and its vibrant intellectual, literary and political history. Cutting-edge research is presented on such wide-ranging topics as poetry, intellectual history, political philosophy, and religious reform and cultural resilience all across the length and breadth of the Arab world, from Morocco to the Gulf States. This is an important statement of new directions in Middle East studies that challenges conventional thinking and has added relevance to the study of global intellectual history more broadly.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Feb 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-14807-7

1-108-14778-X

1-108-14898-0