The Arab Nahdah : the making of the intellectual and humanist movement /: the making of the intellectual and humanist movement. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Abdulrazzak Patel.
• Authors: Patel, Abdulrazzak
• Contents: Introduction : perspectives, paradigms and parameters -- Contemporary interpretations of the nahḍah : tradition, modernity and the Arab intellectual -- The reintegration of pre-modern Christians into the mainstream of Arabic literature and the creation of an inter-religious cultural space -- Guardians of the pre-modern Arab-Islamic humanist tradition : legends without a legacy, a tradition without heirs -- Language reform and controversy : the al-Shartūnīs respond in defence of the pre-modern humanist tradition -- Arabism, patriotism and Ottomanism as means to reform -- Arab intellectuals and the west : borrowing for the sake of progress -- Education, reform and enlightened Azharīs -- Enacting reform : local agents, statesmen, missionaries and the evolution of a cultural infrastructure.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages)
• Subjects: 892.709; Civilization, Arab -- Western influences; Civilization, Arab -- 19th century; Civilization, Arab -- 20th century; Humanism -- Arab countries -- 19th century; Humanism -- Arab countries -- History -- 20th century; LITERARY CRITICISM -- African; RELIGION -- Islam -- General; Civilization, Arab; Civilization, Arab -- Western influences; Humanism; Intellectual life; Arab countries -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Arab countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Arab countries; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748677900; 0748677909; 1299735797; 9781299735798; 9780748677924; 0748677925
• Related ISBNs: 9780748640690
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-259) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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