The Arab Nahdah: The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement (Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature) - Hardcover

Patel, Abdulrazzak

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074864069X ISBN 13: 9780748640690

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the 'nahdah', from the 1700s onwards. 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, taking into account important internal factors alongside external forces.Patel 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Abdulrazzak Patel is Research Fellow at the Oriental Institute

Review:

"Abdulrazzak Patel's The Arab Nahah: The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement is an important work which will likely continue to gain recognition as a new classic within modern treatises on the Arab Nahah...hugely informative and thoroughly enjoyable." - Mohammad R. Salama, The American Historical Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 074864069X
• ISBN 13: 9780748640690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272