The Arab Nahdah: The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist Movement (Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature) - Softcover

Patel, Abdulrazzak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1399564862 ISBN 13: 9781399564861

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

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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Dr Patel graduated from the University of Exeter with a PhD in Arabic and Islamic studies in 2007. He then worked as a Teaching Fellow at Exeter before moving to the University of Oxford in 2008 where he has been pursuing a program of research from his doctoral work and been working on a major new project on the rise and development of the Arab nahḍah. He has already published several articles on the subject in the top journals of his field.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1399564862
• ISBN 13: 9781399564861
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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