Description
This book intends to review the meaning of contemporary in Arab intellectual history. It presents a classification of four periods in modern Arab intellectual history; they are the following: 1) Nahda: the great Arab renaissance period, from 1850 to 1914. The Nahda sought through translation and vulgarization to assimilate the great achievements of modern European civilization; 2) the period between the two wars characterized by the the development of thoughts which played a leading role in social movements, especially in nationalist movements; 3) the period the Arab nationalist experiments on the unionist ideology; and 4) the period of moral and political crisis after the defeat in the 1967 War. The central thesis of this book is that the concept of history – a concept playing a capital role in modern thought – is in fact peripheral to all the ideologies that have dominated the Arab world till now.
- Author: Abd Allah Arawi, Abdallah Laroui, ʻAbd Allāh ʻArawī, ʿAbdallāh al- ʿArawī
- Publisher: Univ of California Press
- Published: 1976-01-01
- Pages: 200
- ISBN-13: 9780520029712
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