Gatekeepers of the Arab Past Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt

Name: Gatekeepers of the Arab Past Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt
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ISBN: 9780520257337

ISBN-10: 0520257332

ISBN-13: 9780520257337

Edition: 2009

Authors: Yoav Di-Capua, Y. Di-Capua

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This groundbreaking study illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. The first comprehensive analysis of a Middle Eastern intellectual tradition,Gatekeepers of the Arab Pastexamines a system of knowledge that replaced the intellectual and methodological conventions of Islamic historiography only at the very end of the nineteenth century. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, including rare archival sources, Yoav Di-Capua explores Egyptian historical thought, examines the careers of numerous critical historians, and traces this tradition's uneasy…

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List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 406
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Yoav Di-Capua is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



Historicizing Ottoman Egypt: 1890-1906



Talking History: 1906-1920



The '&Abar;bd&ibar;n House of Records: The 1920s



Competing for History: 1930-1952



Ghurb&abar;l's School: 1930-1952



Partisan Historiography: The 1940s and Beyond



Demonstrating History: The 1950s



Controlling History: The 1960s



Authoritarian Pluralism: 1970-2000


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index