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Culture and Hegemony in the Colonial Middle East

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  • © 2010

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  1. Yaseen Noorani
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-22

  3. Sovereign Virtue and the Emergence of Nationality

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    Pages 23-48

  4. The Death of the Hero and the Birth of Bourgeois Class Status

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    Pages 49-70

  5. Order, Agency, and the Economy of Desire: Islamic Reformism and Arab Nationalism

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    Pages 71-106

  6. The Moral Transformation of Femininity and the Rise of the Public-Private Distinction in Colonial Egypt

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    Pages 107-147

  7. Fiction, Hegemony, and Aesthetic Citizenship

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    Pages 149-170

  8. Excess, Rebellion, and Revolution: Egyptian Modernity in the Trilogy

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    Pages 171-208

  9. Epilogue

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    Pages 209-212

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 213-245
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About this book

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.

About the author

YASEEN NOORANI is an Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona, USA.

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