Arabic thought in the liberal age, 1798-1939 / Albert Hourani.

Author
Hourani, Albert, 1915-1993 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Description
x, 406 pages ; 23 cm

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    Translated as
    Fikr al-ʻArabī fī ʻaṣr al-nahḍah, 1798-1939
    Summary note
    Arabic thought in the liberal age is the most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East. Albert Hourani studies the way in which ideas about politics and society changed during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, in response to the expanding influence of Europe. His main attention is given to the movement of ideas in Egypt and Lebanon. He shows how two streams of thought, the one aiming to restate the social principles of Islam, and the other to justify the separation of religion from politics, flowed into each other to create the Egyptian and Arab nationalisms of the present century. The last chapter of the book surveys the main tendencies of thought in the post-war years.
    Notes
    • Originally published: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1962. With new pref.
    • Includes index.
    Bibliographic references
    Bibliography: p. 374-395.
    Contents
    • Preface to the 1983 reissue
    • Note on transliteration and references
    • The Islamic state
    • The Ottoman Empire
    • First views of Europe
    • The first generation: Tahtawi, Khayr Al-Din, and Bustani
    • Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani
    • Muhammad 'Abduh
    • 'Abduh's Egyptian disciples: Islam and modern civilization
    • Egyptian nationalism
    • Rashid Rida
    • Christian secularists: Shumayyil and Antun
    • Arab nationalism
    • Taha Husayn
    • Epilogue: Past and future.
    ISBN
    • 0521258375
    • 9780521258371
    • 0521274230 ((pbk.))
    • 9780521274234 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    83001788
    OCLC
    9197163
    International Standard Recording Code
    • 8609132 8461415 +UKX
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