Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939
Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939

Author: Albert Hourani

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1983-06-23

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780521274234

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This book is a most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East.

Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939
Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939

Author: Albert Hourani

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1983-06-23

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1107717116

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Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939 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. Since its publication in 1962, this book has been regarded as a modern classic of interpretation. It was reissued by the Cambridge University Press in 1983 and has subsequently sold over 8000 copies.

Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age
Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age

Author: Jens Hanssen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-12-22

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1316654249

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What is the relationship between thought and practice in the domains of language, literature and politics? Is thought the only standard by which to measure intellectual history? How did Arab intellectuals change and affect political, social, cultural and economic developments from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries? This volume offers a fundamental overhaul and revival of modern Arab intellectual history. Using Hourani's Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798–1939 (Cambridge, 1962) as a starting point, it reassesses Arabic cultural production and political thought in the light of current scholarship and extends the analysis beyond Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the outbreak of World War II. The chapters offer a mixture of broad-stroke history on the construction of 'the Muslim world', and the emergence of the rule of law and constitutionalism in the Ottoman empire, as well as case studies on individual Arab intellectuals that illuminate the transformation of modern Arabic thought.

Islam in European Thought
Islam in European Thought

Author: Albert Hourani

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-07-31

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780521421201

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Louis Massignon, H.A.R. Gibb, Marshall Hodgsons and T.E. Lawrence are discussed in a collection of essays that focuses on the relationship between European and Islamic thought and culture from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century.