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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos,
University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.
Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. When Nafir Suriyya-"The
Clarion of Syria"-was penned between September 1860 and April 1861,
its author Butrus al- Bustani, a major figure in the modern Arabic
Renaissance, had witnessed his homeland undergo unprecedented
violence in what many today consider Lebanon's first civil war.
Written during Ottoman and European investigations into the causes
and culprits of the atrocities, The Clarion of Syria is both a
commentary on the politics of state intervention and social
upheaval, and a set of visions for the future of Syrian society in
the wake of conflict. This translation makes a key historical
document accessible for the first time to an English audience. An
introduction by the translators sketches the history that led up to
the civil strife in Mt. Lebanon, outlines a brief biography of
Butrus al- Bustani, and provides an authoritative overview of the
literary style and historiography of Nafir Suriyya. Rereading these
pamphlets in the context of today's political violence, in war-
torn Syria and elsewhere in the Arab world, helps us gain a
critical and historical perspective on sectarianism, foreign
invasions, conflict resolution, Western interventionism, and
nationalist tropes of reconciliation.
What is the relationship between thought and practice in the
domains of language, literature and politics? Is thought the only
standard by which to measure intellectual history? How did Arab
intellectuals change and affect political, social, cultural and
economic developments from the eighteenth to the twentieth
centuries? This volume offers a fundamental overhaul and revival of
modern Arab intellectual history. Using Hourani's Arabic Thought in
the Liberal Age, 1798-1939 (Cambridge, 1962) as a starting point,
it reassesses Arabic cultural production and political thought in
the light of current scholarship and extends the analysis beyond
Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the outbreak of World War II. The
chapters offer a mixture of broad-stroke history on the
construction of 'the Muslim world', and the emergence of the rule
of law and constitutionalism in the Ottoman empire, as well as case
studies on individual Arab intellectuals that illuminate the
transformation of modern Arabic thought.
Postwar Beirut conjures up contradictory images of remarkable
openness and inconceivable violence, of great antiquity and a
bright future. The Lebanese capital stands for Arab cosmopolitanism
and cultural effervescence but also for its tragedies of
destruction. This book examines the historical formation of Beirut
as a multiply contested Mediterranean city.
Fin de Siecle Beirut is a landmark contribution to the growing
literature in Ottoman studies, in Arab cultural history and on
Mediterranean cities. Combining urban theory, particularly Henri
Lefebvre's work on cities and capitalism, with postcolonial
methodology, the central thesis of this book is that modern Beirut
is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over
the production of space. The city of Beirut was at once the
product, the object, and the project of imperial and urban politics
of difference: overlapping European, Ottoman, and municipal
civilising missions competed in the political fields of
administration, infrastructure, urban planning, public health,
education, public morality, journalism, and architecture.
Jens Hanssen offers a comprehensive, original account of the
emergence of modern Beirut out of an economic shift away from Acre
in the wake of the Napoleonic wars. He argues that the Ottoman
government's decision to heed calls for the creation of a new
province around Beirut and grant it provincial capital status in
1888 paved the way for fundamental urban and regional
reconfigurations long before colonial policies during the French
Mandate period. This new Ottoman province came to constitute the
territorial embodiment of regional self-determination for Arab
nationalists in Beirut untilthe dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
after World War I.
Drawing on published and unpublished Ottoman government documents,
Arabic sources, and European archival material, Hanssen's book
traces the urban experience of modernity in the Ottoman Empire. The
transformation of everyday life in late nineteenth-century Beirut
and the concomitant policies of urban management is vividly set
against the devastating civil war in Mount Lebanon and Damascus in
1860.
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.
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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