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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101107193389

ISBN-139781107193383

eBay Product ID (ePID)239755295

Product Key Features

Number of Pages454 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameArabic Thought Against the Authoritarian Age : Towards an Intellectual History of the Present

Publication Year2018

SubjectCivilization, Customs & Traditions, Middle East / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorMax Weiss

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight29.7 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2017-035419

ReviewsAdvance praise: 'A much needed addition to our understanding of the Arab uprisings, their causes, and their meaning. While the political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions of the uprisings have been well explored, this book is unique inasmuch as it probes the overlooked role played by intellectuals in interpreting the Arab condition and articulating the complaints and demands of activists.' James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal956.04

Table Of Content1. Introduction: towards a postwar intellectual history of the Arab world Max Weiss and Jens Hanssen; Part I. Arab Intellectuals in an Age of Decolonization: 2. Changing the Arab intellectual guard: on the fall of the udaba, 1940-60 Yoav Di-Capua; 3. Arabic thought in the radical age: Emile Habibi, the Israeli communist party and the production of Arab Jewish radicalism, 1946-61 Orit Bashkin; 4. Political praxis in the Gulf: Ahmad al-Khatib and the movement of Arab nationalists, 1948-69 Abdel Razzaq Takriti; 5. Modernism in translation: poetry and intellectual history in Beirut Robyn Creswell; Part II. Culture and Ideology in the Shadow of Authoritarianism: 6. Regional specificities of modern Arab thought: Morocco since the liberal age Hosam Aboul-Ela; 7. Sidelining ideology: Arab theory in the metropole and periphery, circa 1977 Fadi Bardawil; 8. Mosaic, melting pot, pressure cooker: the religious, the secular, and the sectarian in twentieth-century Syrian social thought Max Weiss; 9. Looking for 'the women question' in Algeria and Tunisia: ideas, political language and female actors before and after independence Natalya Vince; Part III. From (Neo)Liberalism to the 'Arab Spring' and Beyond: 10. Egyptian workers in the 'liberal age' and beyond Joel Beinin; 11. The redemption of women's liberation: reviving Qasim Amin in contemporary Egypt Ellen McLarney; 12. Turath as critique: Hassan Hanafi and the political subject in modern Arabic thought Yasmeen Daifallah; 13. Summoning the spirit of Taha Husayn's enlightenment project: the Nahda revival of Qadaya wa-shahadat in the 1990s Suzanne Kassab; 14. Revolution as ready-made: art, aesthetics, Arab uprisings Negar Azimi; 15. For a third Nahda Elias Khoury; 16. Where are the intellectuals in the Syrian revolution? Rosa Yasin Hasan; 17. The intellectuals and the revolution in Syria Yasin al-Hajj Salih.

SynopsisThe Middle East is often depicted as a landscape of war, authoritarianism, and social unrest. This book, full of cutting-edge scholarship, illuminates underappreciated aspects of the intellectual and cultural history of the post-war Arab world and explores the contributions of Arab writers, poets, and intellectuals to politics, culture and social change., In the wake of the Arab uprisings, the Middle East descended into a frenzy of political turmoil and unprecedented human tragedy which reinforced regrettable stereotypes about the moribund state of Arab intellectual and cultural life. This volume sheds important light on diverse facets of the post-war Arab world and its vibrant intellectual, literary and political history. Cutting-edge research is presented on such wide-ranging topics as poetry, intellectual history, political philosophy, and religious reform and cultural resilience all across the length and breadth of the Arab world, from Morocco to the Gulf States. This is an important statement of new directions in Middle East studies that challenges conventional thinking and has added relevance to the study of global intellectual history more broadly.

LC Classification NumberDS36.88.AA742835