Making of the Arab Intellectual

Dyala Hamzah is Assistant Professor of Middle East History at the Université de Montréal. She holds an M. Phil. in Philosophy from the Sorbonne and a Ph.D. in History and Islamic Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin and the EHESS (Paris). She is currently completing a book entitled Muhammad Rashīd Ridā (1865–1935) ou le “Tournant Salafiste”. Intérêt général, Islam et Opinion Publique dans l’Egypte Coloniale.

• 1. Introduction: The Making of the Arab Intellectual: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood 2. Pharaoh’s Revenge: Translation, Literary History and Colonial Ambivalence 3. Public Deliberations of the Self in Fin-de-Siecle Egypt (1880-1910) 4. Inscribing Socialism into the Nahda: al-Muqtataf, al-Hilal, and the Construction of a Leftist Reformist Worldview, 1880-1914 5. From ‘Ilm to Sihafa or the Politics of the Public Interest (Maslaha): Muhammad Rashid Rida and his journal al-Manar (1898-1935) 6. Partitioned Pasts: Arab Jewish Intellectuals and the Case of Esther Azhari Moyal, 1873-1948 7. The "Mahjar" as literary and political territory in the first decades of the 20th century: the example of Amin Rihani (1876-1940) 8. The Generation of Broad Expectations: Nationalism, Education, and Autobiography in Syria and Lebanon, 1930-1958 9. Waiting for the Superman: A New Generation of Arab Nationalists in 1930s Iraq 10. Afterword

"This compilation presents a very rich analysis of the intellectual profile of the Arab World, which was lost somewhere between history and historiography. In addition, this book reintroduces the Jewish contribution to the Arab intellectual movements, which was almost forgotten."Omair AnasInsight Turkey Volume 17 No. 1 Book Reviews