Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939 is the most
comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social
thought in the Arab Middle East. Albert Hourani studies the way in
which ideas about politics and society changed during the nineteenth
and the first half of the twentieth centuries, in response to the
expanding influence of Europe. His main attention is given to the
movement of ideas in Egypt and Lebanon. He shows how two streams of
thought, the one aiming to restate the social principles of Islam, and
the other to justify the separation of religion from politics, flowed
into each other to create the Egyptian and Arab nationalisms of the
present century. The last chapter of the book surveys the main
tendencies of thought in the post-war years. Since its publication in
1962, this book has been regarded as a modern classic of
interpretation. It was reissued by the Cambridge University Press in
1983 and has subsequently sold over 8000 copies.
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9781107712980
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2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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