Adab and modernity : a "civilising process"? (sixteenth-twenty-first century) / edited by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine, editor.

Series:

Islamic literatures ; Volume 3.

Islamic literatures ; Volume 3

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Arab.

Islamic civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Language Note:

In English and French.

Summary:

Adab is a concept situated at the heart of Arabic and Islamic civilisation. Adab is etiquette, ethics, and literature. It is also a creative synthesis, a relationship within a configuration. What became of it, towards modernity ? The question of the "civilising process" (Norbert Elias) helps us reflect on this story. During the modern period, maintaining one's identity while entering into what was termed "civilisation" ( al-tamaddun ) soon became a leitmotiv . A debate on what was or what should be culture, ethics, and norms in Middle Eastern societies accompanied this evolution. The resilient notion of adab has been in competition with the Salafist focus on mores ( akhlāq ). Still, humanism, poetry, and transgression are constants in the history of adab . Contributors: Francesca Bellino, Elisabetta Benigni, Michel Boivin, Olivier Bouquet, Francesco Chiabotti, Stéphane Dudoignon, Anne-Laure Dupont, Stephan Guth, Albrecht Hofheinz, Katharina Ivanyi, Felix Konrad, Corinne Lefevre, Cathérine Mayeur-Jaouen, Astrid Meier, Nabil Mouline, Samuela Pagani, Luca Patrizi, Stefan Reichmuth, Iris Seri-Hersch, Chantal Verdeil, Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan.

Contents:

Contents

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

/ Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

Part 1: New Formulations of adab in Modern Islam (Sixteenth–Nineteenth Century)

1 / Adab, / akhlāq and Early Modern Ottoman Paraenesis: Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī’s (d. 981/1573) / al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya

/ Katharina Ivanyi

2 Mughal Early Modernity and Royal/ ādāb : Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddith Dihlawī’s Sufi Voice of Reform

/ Corinne Lefèvre

3 / Adab and Scholarship Mirrored by Law: Reading Ibn ʿĀbidīn’s Treatise / Shifāʾ al-ʿalīl wa-ball al-ghalīl fī ḥukm al-waṣiyya bi-l-khatmāt wa-l-tahālīl

/ Astrid Meier

4 Arabic Encyclopaedias and Encyclopaedism between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Forms, Functions, Intersections of / Adab and Modernity

/ Francesca Bellino

Part 2: Translations and Mediations in the Time of European Encounters (Nineteenth Century)

5 When / Il Principe Travelled to Egypt: Translating Machiavelli in Nineteenth Century Cairo and the Cultural Politics of the Nation

/ Elisabetta Benigni

6 Changing Table Manners at the Court of the Khedives: Serving up a New / adab for the Elite

/ Felix Konrad

7 Mirzā Qalīc Beg (1855–1929) and the Renewal of / adab in a Peripheral Province of British India

/ Michel Boivin

8 Les nouveaux usages de l’/ adab: belles-lettres, bonnes manières et pratique des langues chez les représentants de la Porte ottomane (XVIIIe–XXe siècle)

/ Olivier Bouquet

9 Un / adab de classes moyennes. Normes sociales, culture et littérature dans la production réformiste arabe au temps de Jurjī Zaydān (1861–1914)

/ Anne-Laure Dupont

10 / Adab as the Art to Make the Right Choice between Local Tradition and Euromania: a Comparative Analysis of Khalīl al-Khūrī’s / Way, idhan lastu bi-Ifranjī! (1859) and Aḥmed Mid­ḥat’s / Felāṭūn Beğ ile Rāḳım Efendī (1875), or on the Threshold of Nationalizing Middle Eastern Culture

/ Stephan Guth

Part 3: Education and Emotions in the “Civilising Process” in the Middle East

11 Manfalūṭī (1876–1924), l’amour pur, et la critique sentimentale de la civilisation

/ Samuela Pagani

12 Entre « civilisation » et distinction, l’adab des missionnaires catholiques au XIXe siècle

/ Chantal Verdeil

13 Feminine or Masculine / Adab ? Education, Etiquette, and Ethics in Egypt in the 1900s–1920s

14 Civilising Teachers, Modernising the Sudanese: Colonial Education and “Character Training” in Postwar Sudan, 1945–1953

/ Iris Seri-Hersch

15 Manquer d’/ adab ou de / taʿāruf dans l’Iran contemporain : deux enjeux différents ?

/ Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan

Part 4: Reformulating adab and Civilisation in Contemporary Islam (Nineteenth-Twentieth Century)

16 Un manuel d’/ adab et d’/ akhlāq pour les temps modernes: les / Jawāmiʿ al-ādāb fī akhlāq al-anjāb de Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī (1866–1914)

/ Luca Patrizi

17 Yūsuf b. Ismāʿīl al-Nabahānī (m. 1932), / adīb soufi au temps de la Réforme

/ Francesco Chiabotti

18 A Surrogate Aristocracy? Sufi / Adab, Modernity, Rurality, and Civilisation in Ex-Soviet Central Asia

/ Stéphane A. Dudoignon

19 Arabic Writing and Islamic Identity in Colonial Yorubaland: Ilọrin and Western Nigeria, ca. 1900–1950

/ Stefan Reichmuth

20 La politique du commandement du bien et de l’interdiction du mal en Arabie saoudite

/ Nabil Mouline

21 / Rāqī bi-akhlāqī . The Moral Turn—From Sufi Sheikhs to Facebook Groups?

/ Albrecht Hofheinz

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004415997

9004415998

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004415997 DOI