The Arab Nahdah: The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement

Abdulrazzak Patel

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The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement

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Abdulrazzak Patel, Oriental Institute

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: October 2013
Print publication year:: 2013
Online ISBN:: 9780748677900

Subjects:: Literature, Islam, Literary Theory, Religion

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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, looking back to its origins in the 1700s and taking into account important internal factors alongside external forces. He 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.

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The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Series Editor's Foreword
pp vi-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-ix

Preface
pp x-xii

Introduction: Perspectives, Paradigms and Parameters
pp 1-11

1 - Contemporary Interpretations of the Nahḍah: Tradition, Modernity and the Arab Intellectual
pp 12-35

2 - The Reintegration of Pre-modern Christians into the Mainstream of Arabic Literature and the Creation of an Inter-religious Cultural Space
pp 36-74

3 - Guardians of the Pre-modern Arab-Islamic Humanist Tradition: Legends without a Legacy, a Tradition without Heirs
pp 75-101

4 - Language Reform and Controversy: The al-Shartūnīs Respond in Defence of the Pre-modern Humanist Tradition
pp 102-126

5 - Arabism, Patriotism and Ottomanism as Means to Reform
pp 127-158

6 - Arab Intellectuals and the West: Borrowing for the Sake of Progress
pp 159-180

7 - Education, Reform and Enlightened Azharīs
pp 181-200

8 - Enacting Reform: Local Agents, Statesmen, Missionaries and the Evolution of a Cultural Infrastructure
pp 201-223

Conclusion
pp 224-233

Bibliography
pp 234-250

Index
pp 251-259

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