The Arab Renaissance

Author : Tarek El-Ariss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 1603293094

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The Arab Renaissance by Tarek El-Ariss Pdf

"An anthology of Arabic texts and English translations of works from the Arab Renaissance (Nahda) on modernity, language, gender, transnationalism, literary criticism, politics, travel, social justice, technology, history, and commerce. The edition is designed for the classroom, with an introduction, translator's note, and textual notes for students and teachers"--

Author : Womack Deanna Ferree Womack
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474436748

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Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria by Womack Deanna Ferree Womack Pdf

The Ottoman Syrians - residents of modern Syria and Lebanon - formed the first Arabic-speaking Evangelical Church in the region. This book offers a fresh narrative of the encounters of this minority Protestant community with American missionaries, Eastern churches and Muslims at the height of the Nahda, from 1860 to 1915. Drawing on rare Arabic publications, it challenges historiography that focuses on Western male actors. Instead it shows that Syrian Protestant women and men were agents of their own history who sought the salvation of Syria while adapting and challenging missionary teachings. These pioneers established a critical link between evangelical religiosity and the socio-cultural currents of the Nahda, making possible the literary and educational achievements of the American Syrian Mission and transforming Syrian society in ways that still endure today.

Author : Robert Jones
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004418127

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Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624) by Robert Jones Pdf

In his classic study Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624)’, Robert Jones explores the practical and intellectual challenges faced by scholars of Arabic, especially of Arabic grammar, from Pedro de Alcalá to Guillaume Postel, Giovan Battista Raimondi and Thomas Erpenius.

Author : Charles Villa-Vicencio,Erik Doxtader,Ebrahim Moosa
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626161986

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The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring by Charles Villa-Vicencio,Erik Doxtader,Ebrahim Moosa Pdf

The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring addresses the often unspoken connection between the powerful call for a political-cultural renaissance that emerged with the end of South African apartheid and the popular revolts of 2011 that dramatically remade the landscape in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. Looking between southern and northern Africa, the transcontinental line from Cape to Cairo that for so long supported colonialism, its chapters explore the deep roots of these two decisive events and demonstrate how they are linked by shared opposition to legacies of political, economic, and cultural subjugation. As they work from African, Islamic, and Western perspectives, the book’s contributors shed important light on a continent’s difficult history and undertake a critical conversation about whether and how the desire for radical change holds the possibility of a new beginning for Africa, a beginning that may well reshape the contours of global affairs.

Author : Deanna Ferree Womack
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474436731

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Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria by Deanna Ferree Womack Pdf

The Ottoman Syrians - residents of modern Syria and Lebanon - formed the first Arabic-speaking Evangelical Church in the region. This book offers a fresh narrative of the encounters of this minority Protestant community with American missionaries, Eastern churches and Muslims at the height of the Nahda, from 1860 to 1915. Drawing on rare Arabic publications, it challenges historiography that focuses on Western male actors. Instead it shows that Syrian Protestant women and men were agents of their own history who sought the salvation of Syria while adapting and challenging missionary teachings. These pioneers established a critical link between evangelical religiosity and the socio-cultural currents of the Nahda, making possible the literary and educational achievements of the American Syrian Mission and transforming Syrian society in ways that still endure today.

Author : Dag Nikolaus Hasse
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674971585

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Success and Suppression by Dag Nikolaus Hasse Pdf

Dag Nikolaus Hasse shows how ideological and scientific motives led to the decline of Arabic traditions in European culture. The Renaissance was a turning point: on the one hand, Arabic scientific traditions reached their peak of influence in Europe; on the other, during this period the West began to forget, or suppress, its debt to Arabic culture.

Author : George Saliba
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262261128

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Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance by George Saliba Pdf

The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance. The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations—the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century intellectual historian Ibn al-Naidm that is ignored by most modern scholars, Saliba suggests that early translations from mainly Persian and Greek sources outlining elementary scientific ideas for the use of government departments were the impetus for the development of the Islamic scientific tradition. He argues further that there was an organic relationship between the Islamic scientific thought that developed in the later centuries and the science that came into being in Europe during the Renaissance. Saliba outlines the conventional accounts of Islamic science, then discusses their shortcomings and proposes an alternate narrative. Using astronomy as a template for tracing the progress of science in Islamic civilization, Saliba demonstrates the originality of Islamic scientific thought. He details the innovations (including new mathematical tools) made by the Islamic astronomers from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, and offers evidence that Copernicus could have known of and drawn on their work. Rather than viewing the rise and fall of Islamic science from the often-narrated perspectives of politics and religion, Saliba focuses on the scientific production itself and the complex social, economic, and intellectual conditions that made it possible.

Author : Abdulrazzak Patel
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748677900

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Arab Nahdah by Abdulrazzak Patel Pdf

Explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the 'nahdah', from the 1700s onwards. To understand today's Arab thinking, you need to go back to the beginnings of modernity: the nahdah or Arab renaissance of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Abdulrazzak Patel enhances our understanding of the nahdah and its intellectuals, taking into account important internal factors alongside external forces.Patel explores the key factors that contributed to the rise and development of the nahdah, he introduces the humanist movement of the period that was the driving force behind much of the linguistic, literary and educational activity. Drawing on intellectual history, literary history and postcolonial studies, he argues that the nahdah was the product of native development and foreign assistance and that nahdah reformist thought was hybrid in nature. Overall, this study highlights the complexity of the movement and offers a more pluralist history of the period.

Author : John Stothoff Badeau,John Richard Hayes
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021561363

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The Genius of Arab Civilization by John Stothoff Badeau,John Richard Hayes Pdf

Author : John R. Hayes
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814734855

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Genius of Arab Civilization by John R. Hayes Pdf

This edition is filled with nearly 100 illustrations. It contains essays by such top scholars as Oleg Grabar, Abdelhammid I. Sabra, and Mounah A. Khouri on the Arab role and influence in Islamic Culture, literature, philosophy, history, architecture and art, science, technology,trade, and commerce.

Author : Dwight F. Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521898072

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture by Dwight F. Reynolds Pdf

An accessible and wide-ranging survey of modern Arab culture covering political, intellectual and social aspects.

Author : Tarek El-Ariss
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823252350

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Trials of Arab Modernity by Tarek El-Ariss Pdf

Challenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity—which treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovation—this study instead offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and contestations of modernity staged in works by authors such as Rifa’a al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Tayeb Salih, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamdi Abu Golayyel, and Ahmad Alaidy. In dialogue with affect theory, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis, the book reveals these trials to be a violent and ongoing confrontation with and within modernity. In pointed and witty prose, El-Ariss bridges the gap between Nahda (the so-called Arab project of Enlightenment) and postcolonial and postmodern fiction.

Author : Beatrice Gruendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674987814

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The Rise of the Arabic Book by Beatrice Gruendler Pdf

The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages. During the thirteenth century, Europe’s largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard works so that their many patrons could enjoy simultaneous access. How did the Arabic codex become so popular during the Middle Ages, even as the well-established form languished in Europe? Beatrice Gruendler’s The Rise of the Arabic Book answers this question through in-depth stories of bookmakers and book collectors, stationers and librarians, scholars and poets of the ninth century. The history of the book has been written with an outsize focus on Europe. The role books played in shaping the great literary cultures of the world beyond the West has been less known—until now. An internationally renowned expert in classical Arabic literature, Gruendler corrects this oversight and takes us into the rich literary milieu of early Arabic letters.

Author : Hans Belting
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674050045

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Florence and Baghdad by Hans Belting Pdf

In this lavishly illustrated study, Belting deals with the double history of perspective, as a visual theory based on geometrical abstraction (in the Middle East) and as pictorial theory (in Europe). Florence and Baghdad addresses a provocative question that reaches beyond the realm of aesthetics and mathematics: What happens when Muslims and Christians look upon each other and find their way of viewing the world transformed as a result?

Author : Abdulrazzak Patel
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748677924

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Arab Nahdah by Abdulrazzak Patel Pdf

The nahda or Arab renaissance of the 19th and early 20th centuries forms the basis of modernity in Arabic literature and Arab thought more generally. This book enhances our understanding of the movement that led its culture from medievalism to modern time