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Utopia and civilisation in the Arab Nahda /

Exploring the 'Nahda,' a cultural renaissance in the Arab world responding to massive social change, this study presents a crucial and often overlooked part of the Arab world's encounter with global capitalist modernity, an interaction which reshaped the Middle East over the course of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hill, Peter, 1988- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Civilization, Arab > 19th century.
Arabic literature > 1801- > History and criticism.
Utopias in literature.
Arab countries > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Who made the Nahda?
  • The discourse of civilisation
  • A place in the world
  • An Arab utopian.