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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 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.



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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. 2-7
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. List of Tables
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xiii-xiv
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  1. List of Abbreviations
  2. pp. xv-xvi
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-18
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  1. 1. Historicizing Ottoman Egypt: 1890 – 1906
  2. pp. 19-65
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  1. 2. Talking History: 1906 – 1920
  2. pp. 66-90
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  1. 3. The `Ābdīn House of Records: The 1920s
  2. pp. 91-140
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  1. 4. Competing for History: 1930 – 1952
  2. pp. 141-185
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  1. 5. Ghurbāl’s School: 1930 – 1952
  2. pp. 186-218
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  1. 6. Partisan Historiography: The 1940s and Beyond
  2. pp. 219-247
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  1. 7. Demonstrating History: The 1950s
  2. pp. 248-281
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  1. 8. Controlling History: The 1960s
  2. pp. 282-310
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  1. 9. Authoritarian Pluralism: 1970 – 2000
  2. pp. 311-336
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  1. Conclusion
  2. pp. 337-344
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 345-370
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 371-389
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  1. Production Notes
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