Arabic thought beyond the liberal age : towards an intellectual history of the Nahda / edited by Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto, Max Weiss Princeton University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanssen, Jens, editor of compilation.

Weiss, Max, 1977- editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--Arab countries--History.

Social change.

Muslims--Arab countries--Intellectual life.

Muslims.

Intellectuals--Arab countries--Biography.

Intellectuals.

Liberalism--Arab countries--History.

Liberalism.

Political science--Arab countries--History.

Political science.

Politics and literature--Arab countries--History.

Politics and literature.

Arab countries--Intellectual life--18th century.

Arab countries.

Arab countries--Intellectual life--19th century.

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

Arab countries--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 437 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

What is the relationship between thought and practice in the domains of language, literature and politics? Is thought the only standard by which to measure intellectual history? How did Arab intellectuals change and affect political, social, cultural and economic developments from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries? This volume offers a fundamental overhaul and revival of modern Arab intellectual history. Using Hourani's Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939 (Cambridge, 1962) as a starting point, it reassesses Arabic cultural production and political thought in the light of current scholarship and extends the analysis beyond Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the outbreak of World War II. The chapters offer a mixture of broad-stroke history on the construction of 'the Muslim world', and the emergence of the rule of law and constitutionalism in the Ottoman empire, as well as case studies on individual Arab intellectuals that illuminate the transformation of modern Arabic thought.

Contents:

General introduction: Time, language, mind and freedom : the Arabic Nahda in four words / Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss

Part I. The Legacies of Albert Hourani

Albert Hourani and the making of modern Middle East studies in the English-speaking world : a personal memoir / Roger Owen

Albert's world : historicism, liberal imperialism and the struggle for Palestine, 1936-48 / Jens Hanssen

Part II. The Expansion of the Political Imagination

Debating political community in the age of reform, rebellion and empire, 1780-1820 / Dina Rizk Khoury

The question of the Ottoman caliphate in global Muslim political thought, 1774-1914 / Cemil Aydin

From rule of law to constitutionalism : Arab political thought in its Ottoman context, 1808-1908 / Thomas Philipp

Part III. Means and Ends of the Nahda Experiment

Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq (1804-87) : the quest for another modernity / Fawwaz Traboulsi

Liberal thought and the "problem" of women : 1890s Cairo / Marilyn Booth

"Illiberal" thought in the liberal age : Yusuf al-Nabhani (1849-1932), dream-stories and the polemics against the modern era / Amal Ghazal

Part IV. The Persistence of the Nahda

Participation and critique : Arab intellectuals respond to the "Ottoman revolution" / Thomas Philipp

Men of capital : making money, making nation in Palestine / Sherene Seikaly

The demise of "the Liberal age"? : 'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad and Egyptian responses to Fascism during World War II / Israel Gershoni

Part V. The Afterlives of the Nahda in Comparative Perspective

Indian and Arabic thought in the liberal age / C.A. Bayly

The autumn of the Nahda in light of the Arab Spring : some figures in the carpet / Leyla Dakhli

Epilogue: The Legacies of Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age / Rashid Khalidi.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jan 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-65319-6

1-316-65529-6

1-316-65564-4

1-316-50182-5

1-316-47982-X

1-316-65599-7

1-316-65634-9

1-316-65774-4