Adab and Modernity

Cathérine Mayeur-Jaouen, Ph.D. (1992), Sorbonne Université, is Professor of Modern History at that university. Among her many books: The Mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi of Tanta (AUC Press, 2019). She coedited, with Francesco Chiabotti, Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek and Luca Patrizi, Ethics and Spirituality in islam: Sufi Adab (Brill, 2017).

• ContentsPrefaceList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionCatherine Mayeur-JaouenPart 1: New Formulations of adab in Modern Islam (Sixteenth–Nineteenth Century)1 Adab, akhlāq and Early Modern Ottoman Paraenesis: Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī’s (d. 981/1573) al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya Katharina Ivanyi2 Mughal Early Modernity and Royal ādāb: Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddith Dihlawī’s Sufi Voice of ReformCorinne Lefèvre3 Adab and Scholarship Mirrored by Law: Reading Ibn ʿĀbidīn’s Treatise Shifāʾ al-ʿalīl wa-ball al-ghalīl fī ḥukm al-waṣiyya bi-l-khatmāt wa-l-tahālīlAstrid Meier4 Arabic Encyclopaedias and Encyclopaedism between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Forms, Functions, Intersections of Adab and ModernityFrancesca BellinoPart 2: Translations and Mediations in the Time of European Encounters (Nineteenth Century)5 When Il PrincipeTravelled to Egypt: Translating Machiavelli in Nineteenth Century Cairo and the Cultural Politics of the NationElisabetta Benigni6 Changing Table Manners at the Court of the Khedives: Serving up a New adab for the EliteFelix Konrad7 Mirzā Qalīc Beg (1855–1929) and the Renewal of adabin a Peripheral Province of British IndiaMichel Boivin8 Les nouveaux usages de l’adab: belles-lettres, bonnes manières et pratique des langues chez les représentants de la Porte ottomane (XVIIIe–XXe siècle)Olivier Bouquet9 Un adab de classes moyennes. Normes sociales, culture et littérature dans la production réformiste arabe au temps de Jurjī Zaydān (1861–1914)Anne-Laure Dupont10 Adab as the Art to Make the Right Choice between Local Tradition and Euromania: a Comparative Analysis of Khalīl al-Khūrī’s Way, idhan lastu bi-Ifranjī!(1859) and Aḥmed Mid­ḥat’s Felāṭūn Beğ ile Rāḳım Efendī (1875), or on the Threshold of Nationalizing Middle Eastern CultureStephan GuthPart 3: Education and Emotions in the “Civilising Process” in the Middle East11 Manfalūṭī (1876–1924), l’amour pur, et la critique sentimentale de la civilisationSamuela Pagani12 Entre « civilisation » et distinction, l’adab des missionnaires catholiques au XIXe siècle Chantal Verdeil13 Feminine or Masculine Adab? Education, Etiquette, and Ethics in Egypt in the 1900s–1920sCatherine Mayeur-Jaouen14 Civilising Teachers, Modernising the Sudanese: Colonial Education and “Character Training” in Postwar Sudan, 1945–1953Iris Seri-Hersch15 Manquer d’adab ou de taʿāruf dans l’Iran contemporain : deux enjeux différents ? Anne-Sophie Vivier-MuresanPart 4: Reformulating adab and Civilisation in Contemporary Islam (Nineteenth-Twentieth Century)16 Un manuel d’adab et d’akhlāq pour les temps modernes: les Jawāmiʿ al-ādāb fī akhlāq al-anjāb de Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī (1866–1914)Luca Patrizi17 Yūsuf b. Ismāʿīl al-Nabahānī (m. 1932), adīb soufi au temps de la Réforme Francesco Chiabotti18 A Surrogate Aristocracy? Sufi Adab, Modernity, Rurality, and Civilisation in Ex-Soviet Central AsiaStéphane A. Dudoignon19 Arabic Writing and Islamic Identity in Colonial Yorubaland: Ilọrin and Western Nigeria, ca. 1900–1950Stefan Reichmuth20 La politique du commandement du bien et de l’interdiction du mal en Arabie saouditeNabil Mouline21 Rāqī bi-akhlāqī. The Moral Turn—From Sufi Sheikhs to Facebook Groups?Albrecht HofheinzIndex