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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817362003321

Autore

Di-Capua Yoav <1970->

Titolo

Gatekeepers of the Arab past [[electronic resource] ] : historians and history writing in twentieth-century Egypt / / Yoav Di-Capua

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-35994-0

9786612359941

0-520-94481-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (407 p.)

Disciplina

907.2/062

Soggetti

Historiography - Egypt

Nationalism - Egypt

Historians - Egypt

Egypt Historiography

Egypt History 20th century

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

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Historicizing Ottoman Egypt 1890-1906 -- 2. Talking History 1906-1920 -- 3. The `Ābdīn House Of Records The 1920's -- 4. Competing For History 1930-1952 -- 5. Ghurbāl's School 1930-1952 -- 6. Partisan Historiography The 1940's And Beyond -- 7. Demonstrating History The 1950's -- 8. Controlling History The 1960's -- 9. Authoritarian Pluralism 1970-2000 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This groundbreaking study illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. The first comprehensive analysis of a Middle Eastern intellectual tradition, Gatekeepers of the Past examines a system of knowledge that replaced the intellectual and methodological conventions of Islamic historiography only at the very end of the nineteenth century. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, Yoav Di-Capua explores Egyptian historical thought, examines the careers of numerous critical



historians, and traces this tradition's uneasy relationship with colonial forms of knowledge as well as with the post-colonial state.