Introduction; 1. Who made the Nahda?; 2. The discourse of civilization; 3. A place in the world; 4. An Arab utopian; Conclusions.
Examines the 'Nahda', a cultural renaissance in the Arab world, through the utopian visions of Arab intellectuals during the nineteenth century.
Peter Hill is a Junior Research Fellow in Oriental Studies at Christ Church, University of Oxford. An intellectual and cultural historian of the Arab world in the long nineteenth century, he has lived and studied in Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. He has published articles in journals including Past & Present, the Journal of Arabic Literature and Intellectual History Review.
'an important contribution to studies of the cultural and
intellectual revival of the nahda … which the Arab world witnessed
in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries … opens
new perspectives for understanding the nahda.' Hilary Kilpatrick,
Journal of Islamic Studies
'erudite and thought-provoking … a welcome contribution to
post-national and materialist accounts of modernity in the Arab
world.' Samah Selim, Global Intellectual History
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