Arabic thought against the authoritarian age : towards an intellectual history of the present / edited by Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto ; Max Weiss, Princeton University, New Jersey.

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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Contributors; Preface; Note on Transliteration; 1 Introduction: Arabic Intellectual History between the Postwar and the Postcolonial; Modern Arabic Thought in the Shadow of Global Intellectual History; Problem-Spaces of the Postwar Arab Intellectual Field; Against the Illiberal Age; Cultural Production and Structures of Feeling in the Arab Uprisings; Part I Arab Intellectuals in an Age of Decolonization; 2 Changing the Arab Intellectual Guard: On the Fall of the udaba., 1940-1960

3 Arabic Thought in the Radical Age: Emile Habibi, the Israeli Communist Party, and the Production of Arab Jewish Radicalism, 1946-1961Arabic Thought in the Radical Age and Arab Jewish Thought; Negating the Negation: Iraq and Israel; Iltizam at Work: Resisting in Arabic; Conclusion; 4 Political Praxis in the Gulf: Ahmad al-Khatib and the Movement of Arab Nationalists, 1948-1969; Islamic Reformism and Transnational Thought in the Gulf; Arab Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s; Ahmad al-Khatib: Between the Gulf and Bilad al-Sham; Regional Anti-Colonialism and the Foundations of Local Reform

The Political Thought of the MAN in Kuwait, 1961-1967Conclusion; 5 Modernism in Translation: Poetry and Intellectual History in Beirut; Arabic Modernism as Late Modernism; Translating the poÃm̈e en prose; Modernist Elegies; Part II Culture and Ideology in the Shadow of Authoritarianism; 6 The Specificities of Arab Thought: Morocco since the Liberal Age; Introduction: Morocco and the Discourse of Arab Intellectuals; Reading the Nahda in Morocco; Abdallah Laroui and the Historiography of the Nahda; Abdallah Laroui and the Critique of Orientalism

Conclusion: Intellectuals, Theorists, and Representations7 Sidelining Ideology: Arab Theory in the Metropole and Periphery, circa 1977; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; 8 Mosaic, Melting Pot, Pressure Cooker: The Religious, the Secular, and the Sectarian in Modern Syrian Social Thought; Mosaic, Melting Pot, Pressure Cooker: Metaphors to Think?; Religion and Its Others in Post-Independence Syria; Towards a Syrian Sociology of Religion?; Sectarian Genie or Sociological Genie?

9 Looking for "the Woman Question" in Algeria and Tunisia: Ideas, Political Language, and Female Actors before and after IndependenceColonialism, Nationalism, Muslim Personal Status, and Women; "The Woman Question" as National Particularism, Nation-Building Tool, and Political Weapon; Embodying "Our Women" and "the Woman Question": Mass Organizations at Home, Diplomacy Abroad, and Women's Journalism; Conclusion: Afterlives of "the Woman Question"; Part III From (Neo-)Liberalism to the "Arab Spring" and Beyond

10 Egyptian Workers in the Liberal Age and Beyond

In the wake of the Arab uprisings, the Middle East descended into a frenzy of political turmoil and unprecedented human tragedy which reinforced regrettable stereotypes about the moribund state of Arab intellectual and cultural life. This volume sheds important light on diverse facets of the post-war Arab world and its vibrant intellectual, literary and political history. Cutting-edge research is presented on such wide-ranging topics as poetry, intellectual history, political philosophy, and religious reform and cultural resilience all across the length and breadth of the Arab world, from Morocco to the Gulf States. This is an important statement of new directions in Middle East studies that challenges conventional thinking and has added relevance to the study of global intellectual history more broadly.

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