Arabic Thought Beyond the Liberal Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda

Hanssen, Jens (Editor)/ Weiss, Max (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1107136334 / ISBN 13: 9781107136335

Published by Cambridge Univ Pr, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Arabic Thought Beyond the Liberal Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107136334
• ISBN 13: 9781107136335
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.88 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Jens Hanssen is Associate Professor of Arab Civilization, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History at the University of Toronto.

Max Weiss is Associate Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies and the Elias Boudinot Bicentennial Preceptor at Princeton University, New Jersey.