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

ISBN-13: 9780748640690 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 224 str.

Abdulrazzak Patel

Opis

Explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the 'nahdah', from the 1700s 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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Perspectives, Paradigms and Parameters; 1. Contemporary Interpretations of the nah?ah: Tradition, Modernity and the Arab Intellectual; 2. The Reintegration of Pre-modern Christians into the Mainstream of Arabic Literature and the Creation of an Inter-religious Cultural Space; 3. Guardians of the Pre-modern Arab-Islamic Humanist Tradition: Legends without a Legacy, a tradition without heirs; 4. Language Reform and Controversy: the al-Shart?n?s Respond in Defence of the Pre-modern Humanist Tradition; 5. Arabism, Patriotism and Ottomanism as means to Reform; 6. Arab intellectuals and the West: Borrowing for the Sake of Progress; 7. Education, Reform and Enlightened Azhar?s; 8. Enacting reform: Local Agents, Statesmen, Missionaries and the Evolution of a Cultural Infrastructure; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.