Intellectual currents and the practice of engagement : Ottoman and Algerian writers in a Francophone milieu, 1890-1914 /

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw a great increase in the use of the printed word and the press by non-European actors to express and disseminate ideas and to participate in the intellectual life of both their home societies and a wider international context. This book examines t...

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Main Author: Beamish, David (David Thomas) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Piscataway, New Jersey : Gorgias Press, [2021]
Series:Modern Muslim world (Piscataway, NJ) ; 9.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Repurposing the past : historiography in Ottoman and Algerian texts
  • Chapter 2. In defense of Islam : providing 'authentic perspective'
  • Chapter 3. Making Ottomans and Frenchmen : forms and constructions of identity
  • Chapter 4. Reshaping the state : questions of reform and development.