In this Book
- Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- List of Tables
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. xv-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-18
- 2. Talking History: 1906 – 1920
- pp. 66-90
- 4. Competing for History: 1930 – 1952
- pp. 141-185
- 5. Ghurbāl’s School: 1930 – 1952
- pp. 186-218
- 7. Demonstrating History: The 1950s
- pp. 248-281
- 8. Controlling History: The 1960s
- pp. 282-310
- 9. Authoritarian Pluralism: 1970 – 2000
- pp. 311-336
- Conclusion
- pp. 337-344
- Bibliography
- pp. 345-370
- Production Notes
- p. 407
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520944817
Related ISBN(s)
9780520257320
MARC Record
OCLC
502012672
Pages
406
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No