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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962113603321

Autore

Noorani Yaseen <1966->

Titolo

Culture and Hegemony in the Colonial Middle East / / by Y. Noorani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

9786612909382

9781282909380

128290938X

9780230106437

0230106439

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (x, 245 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History, , 2945-6649

Disciplina

962.04

962/.04

Soggetti

Civilization - History

Middle East - History

World history

Social history

History, Modern

Cultural History

History of the Middle East

World History, Global and Transnational History

Social History

Modern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Sovereign Virtue and the Emergence of Nationality; 2 The Death of the Hero and the Birth of Bourgeois Class Status; 3 Order, Agency, and the Economy of Desire: Islamic Reformism and Arab Nationalism; 4 The Moral Transformation of Femininity and the Rise of the Public-Private Distinction in Colonial Egypt; 5 Fiction, Hegemony, and Aesthetic Citizenship; 6 Excess, Rebellion, and Revolution: Egyptian Modernity in the Trilogy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

This work is a study of the nature and origin of nationality and modern social ideals in the Middle East, particularly Egypt, in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Bringing together writings on political and social reform with literary works, Noorani challenges dominant assumptions about the emergence of modernity. It shows that while nationalist, liberal, and democratic ideals emerged in the Middle East under European influence, these ideals were nevertheless created out of existing cultural values by reformers and intellectuals. The central element of this process, the book argues, was the transformation of virtue into nationality.