The Arab Nahḍah the making of the intellectual and humanist movement

The Arab Nahḍah : the making of the intellectual and humanist movement / Abdulrazzak Patel.

Author/creator	Patel, Abdulrazzak
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
Description	xii, 259 pages ; 24 cm.
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Subject(s)	Civilization, Arab--Western influences. Civilization, Arab--19th century. Civilization, Arab--20th century. Humanism--Arab countries --19th century. Humanism--Arab countries --History --20th century. Arab countries--Intellectual life --19th century. Arab countries--Intellectual life --20th century.

Series	Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature. ^A1145005
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.
Abstract	Explores the key factors that contributed to the Arab Renaissance (nahḍah) in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Focuses on internal factors including the home-grown humanist movement of the period that drove much of the linguistic, literary, and educational activity of the period.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-259) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2013455260
ISBN	9780748640690

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