The Arab Nahdah: The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement - Couverture rigide

Patel, Abdulrazzak

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 074864069X ISBN 13 : 9780748640690

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This title explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the nahdah, from the 1800s 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Abdulrazzak Patel is Mellon Career Development Fellow in Modern Arabic at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 074864069X
• ISBN 13: 9780748640690
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible