
The Arab Renaissance
A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda
Tarek El-Ariss(Editor)
Modern Language Association of America (Publisher)
Published on 30. July 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-1-60329-303-7 (ISBN)
Description
In the Nahda, or Arab Renaissance, from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century, Arab culture and politics for the first time responded to European modernity and face the challenges to Arab power, tradition, and identity posed by the industrial, colonial nations of the West. In the process, Arab society both imitated and innovated, translating contemporary foreign texts, adopting new genres, developing journalism, creating a new publishing industry, and building new educational systems as it changed under conflicting forces: nationalism, secularism, Islamic revival, and language reforms.
Collected in this anthology are texts by intellectuals, writers, clergy, and political figures that deal with authority, social norms, conventions and practices both secular and religious, gender roles, class, travel, and technology. Presented in the original Arabic and in English translation, they will be of interest of students of Arabic language and culture, history, cultural studies, gender studies, and other disciplines.
Collected in this anthology are texts by intellectuals, writers, clergy, and political figures that deal with authority, social norms, conventions and practices both secular and religious, gender roles, class, travel, and technology. Presented in the original Arabic and in English translation, they will be of interest of students of Arabic language and culture, history, cultural studies, gender studies, and other disciplines.
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Series
Edition
Critical edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Bilingual edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
552 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60329-303-7 (9781603293037)
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Tarek El-Ariss is associate professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (2013) and an associate editor of the Journal of Arabic Literature.