Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt
Yoav Di-Capua
Abstract
This study illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. This comprehensive analysis of a Middle Eastern intellectual tradition 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, the book explores Egyptian historical thought, examines the careers of numerous critical historians, and traces this traditi ... More
Keywords: Egyptian modernity, Egyptian history, Islamic historiography, Arabic historical literature, colonial knowledge, post-colonial state
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2009 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520257320 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520257320.001.0001 |
