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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455100703321

Autore

Gasper Michael Ezekiel <1963->

Titolo

The power of representation [[electronic resource] ] : publics, peasants, and Islam in Egypt / / Michael Ezekiel Gasper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8047-6980-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (508 p.)

Disciplina

962/.04

Soggetti

National characteristics, Egyptian

Peasants - Egypt - History

Islamic modernism - Egypt - History

Electronic books.

Egypt Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The formation and the emergence of the peasant question -- People, peasants, and intellectuals -- Five peasant characters in search of bourgeois identity or afandis in gallabiyas -- Scientific agriculture : cultivators, agriculturalists or peasants? -- The new peasant, colonial identity and the modern state.

Sommario/riassunto

Traces the links between the development of modern Egyptian identity and the burgeoning Islamic modernist movement from the mid-1870's until the 1910's.