The Arab Nahdah : the making of the intellectual and humanist movement /

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Author / Creator:	Patel, Abdulrazzak, author.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013] ©2013
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 259 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
Subject:	Civilization, Arab -- Western influences. Civilization, Arab -- 19th century. Civilization, Arab -- 20th century. Humanism -- Arab countries -- 19th century. Humanism -- Arab countries -- History -- 20th century. Civilization, Arab. Civilization, Arab -- Western influences. Humanism. Intellectual life. Arab countries -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. Arab countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. Arab countries. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11200477

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ISBN:	9780748677900 0748677909 1299735797 9781299735798 9780748677924 0748677925 9780748640690 074864069X 9780748640690
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-259) and index. In English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Patel, Abdulrazzak. Arab Nahḍah. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013] 9780748640690

Table of Contents:

Introduction : perspectives, paradigms and parameters
Contemporary interpretations of the nahḍah : tradition, modernity and the Arab intellectual
The reintegration of pre-modern Christians into the mainstream of Arabic literature and the creation of an inter-religious cultural space
Guardians of the pre-modern Arab-Islamic humanist tradition : legends without a legacy, a tradition without heirs
Language reform and controversy : the al-Shartūnīs respond in defence of the pre-modern humanist tradition
Arabism, patriotism and Ottomanism as means to reform
Arab intellectuals and the west : borrowing for the sake of progress
Education, reform and enlightened Azharīs
Enacting reform : local agents, statesmen, missionaries and the evolution of a cultural infrastructure.

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