| Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt Contributor(s): Di-Capua, Yoav (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520257332 ISBN-13: 9780520257337 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $38.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: 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 Past" examines 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 relationship with colonial forms of knowledge as well as with the postcolonial state. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography - History | Middle East - Egypt (see Also Ancient - Egypt) |
| Dewey: 907.206 |
| LCCN: 2009006143 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.20 lbs) 406 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Cultural Region - North Africa - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Past examines 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 historucal literature in Arabic, Yoav Di-Capua explores Egyptian historical thought, examines the careers of numerous critical historians, and traces this tradition's uneasy relationship with colonial forms of knowledge as well as with the post-colonial state. |
