Peter Hill

Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the 'Nahda', a cultural renaissance in the Arab world, through the utopian visions of Arab intellectuals during the nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9781108491662
• ISBN-10: 1108491669
• Artikelnr.: 57018222

Autorenporträt

Peter Hill is a Junior Research Fellow in Oriental Studies at Christ Church, University of Oxford. An intellectual and cultural historian of the Arab world in the long nineteenth century, he has lived and studied in Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. He has published articles in journals including Past & Present, the Journal of Arabic Literature and Intellectual History Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Who made the Nahda?
2. The discourse of civilization
3. A place in the world
4. An Arab utopian
Conclusions.