The Long 1890s in Egypt

Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance
Herausgeber: Booth, Marilyn; Gorman, Anthony

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Produktbeschreibung

'A much-needed set of studies that challenge prevailing assumptions about Egyptian political, social and intellectual passivity during the Cromer period. Breaks new ground with respect to the country's receptivity to, and participation in, global trends.' Roger Owen, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University Explores an understudied moment in Egypt's modern history Egypt just before political eruption! Turns of the century in Africa's northeastern corner have been critical moments, ushering in overt popular activism in the hope of radical political redirection - as this volume's focus on Egypt's 19th-century fin-de-siècle demonstrates. The end of the 19th century in Egypt witnessed crisscrossing and conflicting political currents as well as fluctuating economic, geopolitical, social and demographic conditions, and cultural processes. Like Egypt's 20th-century fin-de-siècle, much of this ferment was a prelude to the more visible and politically eruptive events of the next decades, when Egypt's popular resistance burst onto the international scene. But its subterranean cast was no less dynamic for that. This volume, wide-ranging in focus and thematically cohesive, addresses the dynamism of a period that is crucial to the formation of modern Egypt but has received little scholarly attention on its own merits. Key Features . A general introduction and 13 case studies challenge the prevailing view that the 1890s in Egypt was a time of withdrawal and quiescence . Engages with questions of political engagement, social rearrangements including shifting gender roles, geographical ambiguities, the unprecedented emergence of new media, community identity formation at a time of enormous population influx and new diasporas, and changing artistic formations Marilyn Booth holds the Iraq Chair in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of May Her Likes be Multiplied (2001) and Bayram al-Tunisi's Egypt: Social Criticism and Narrative Strategies (1990). She is editor of Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces (2010). Anthony Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Historians, State and Politics in Twentieth-Century Egypt (2003). Cover image: Opera Square, Cairo, at the beginning of the 20th century. From a private collection. Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1043g
• ISBN-13: 9780748670123
• ISBN-10: 0748670122
• Artikelnr.: 36843555

Autorenporträt

Marilyn Booth is Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professor of the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Oxford. She has published monographs on exemplary biography in the Arabic women's press and vernacular writing in Egypt, and she is editor of Harem Histories (2011) and co-editor of The Long 1890s in Egypt (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). She is the translator of Jokha Alharthi's Celestial Bodies, winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. Anthony Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at universities in Australia, Egypt and Britain. Among his research interests are modern Egyptian historiography and the resident foreign presence in modern Egypt. He is currently co-editing a book on the press in the Middle East and on a monograph on a history of the prison in the Middle East.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Marilyn Booth and Anthony Gorman; Part I: Institutionalising
authority, claiming jurisdiction and space; 1. Documenting death: Inquests,
governance and belonging in Alexandria, Shane Minkin; 2. The scales of
public utility: Agricultural roads and state space in the era of the
British occupation, Aaron George Jakes; 3. Training teachers how to teach:
Transnational exchange and the introduction of social-scientific pedagogy
in 1890s Egypt, Hilary Kalmbach; 4. Legitimising Lay and State Authority:
Challenging the Coptic Church in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Vivian
Ibrahim; 5. Criminal statistics in the long 1890s, Mario Ruiz; Part II:
Challenging authority in contested spaces; 6. Anomalous Egypt? Rethinking
Egyptian sovereignty at the western periphery, Matthew H. Ellis; 7.
Regulating Sexuality: The Colonial-National Struggle over Prostitution
after the British Invasion of Egypt, Hanan Hammad; 8. Internationalist
thought, local practice: Life and Death in the Anarchist movement in 1890s
Egypt, Anthony Gorman; 9. Cromer's assault on 'Internationalism': British
colonialism and the Greeks of Egypt, 1882-1907, Alexander Kazamias; Part
III: Probing authority with the written word; 10. 'And I saw no reason to
chronicle my life': Tensions of nationalist modernity in the memoirs of
Fathallah Pasha Barakat, Hussein Omar; 11. My Sister Esther: Reflections on
Judaism, Ottomanism and Empire in the Works of Farah Antun, Orit Bashkin;
12. Romances of History: Jirji Zaydan and the rise of the historical novel,
Paul Starkey; 13. Before Qasim Amin: Writing histories of gender politics
in 1890s Egypt, Marilyn Booth; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography.