Author: A. M. H. MazyadPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Ahmad Amin
Author: A. M. H. MazyadPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
My Life
Author: Aḥmad AmīnPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004056312
Category : Authors, Egyptian
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Ahmad Amin (1886-1954) was one of that remarkable cohort of Egyptian intellectuals all born a few years either side of 1890, a group whose prolific literary output largely defined and expressed the dominant liberal trend in Egyptian intellectual and cultural life in the period of the parliamentary monarchy from the 1920s through the 1940s. The autobiographical statements of two members of this group, Salamah Musa and Taha Husayn, have previously been made available in English translations. Now the reader unfamiliar with Arabic has an English version of Amin's autobiography to complement those of Musa and Husayn and to illuminate the cultural trends of a most important period of modern Egyptian and Arab history. -- from http://www.jstor.org (Dec. 10, 2013).
Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt
Author: Arthur GoldschmidtPublisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781555872298
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This desk reference provides biodata, biographical sketches, and source material for approximately 500 men and women who have played a major role in Egypt's national life.
This Is Not Your Country
Author: Amin AhmadPublisher:
ISBN: 9781943491285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"These stories, set in Boston, New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Spain and Barbados, all have ties to India. This Is Not Your Country captures the plight of the "new immigrant": savvy, cosmopolitan, connected by cell phone and video chat, but lonelier than ever, and yearning for connection. Such characters as an emergency-room doctor, a genius computer programmer, a lonely livery car driver, and a teenage runaway desperately seek solace in the bodies and lives of others. The book won the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, selected by Stephanie Powell Watts"--
Fundamentalism and Intellectuals in Egypt, 1973-1993
Author: David SagivPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135239614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This study examines the attitude of Egyptian intellectuals towards Islamic fundamentalism in Egypt. They believe that to establish an Islamic state would mean a return to the Middle Ages and that Western values do not necessarily contradict Islam. How far can they influence Egypt's future?
Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt
Author: Donald Malcolm ReidPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894333
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Cairo University has been crucially important in shaping the national life of modern Egypt. In this history, Professor Reid explains the university's part in the national quest for independence from Britain, in the perennial tension between secular and religious world-views, and in the push for a more egalitarian society.
The Challenge of Fundamentalism
Author: Bassam TibiPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520929756
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Long before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Islamic fundamentalism was exerting a significant influence in nearly every corner of the world. Bassam Tibi, a widely recognized expert on Islam and Arab culture, offers an important and disquieting analysis of this particular synthesis of religion and politics. A Muslim and descendant of a famous Damascene Islamic scholar family, Tibi sees Islamic fundamentalism as the result of Islam's confrontation with modernity and not only--as it is widely believed--economic adversity. The movement is unprecedented in Islamic history and parallels the inability of Islamic nation-states to integrate into the new world secular order. For this updated edition, Tibi has written a new preface and lengthy introduction addressing Islamic fundamentalism in light of and since September 11.
Working Out Egypt
Author: Wilson Chacko JacobPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822346745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Describes how attempts to create a modern Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze were enacted through discourses of gender and sexuality during the British colonial period.
Arab Civilization: Challenges and Responses
Author: George N. AtiyehPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887066993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book discusses Arab history, law, philosophy, politics, and literature, analyzing the challenges and responses aroused by the interaction between Western culture and the ancient and modern Arab cultures. It offers a wealth of information on the forces that have shaped Arab civilization and on several of the major figures who have contributed to its development. Some of the outstanding contributions include a comprehensive study of Dr. Zurayk as the advocate of rationalism in modern Arab thought by Hani A. Faris; a sober but challenging look at the use of Islamic history in our time by Muhsin Mahdi; an analysis of the expression of historicity in the Koran by Jacques Berque; an explanation of the concept of equity in Islamic law by Majid Khadduri; and the revelation of a Mamluk Magna Carta by Aziz Sourial Atiya.
Shi'i Theology in Iran
Author: Ori GoldbergPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136649042
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Metaphor and identity. The discursive personality -- Stuck in the middle with you -- A double edged sword -- Anxiety and discourse. Theology and duality -- Mediated deliverance -- Faith. Wheel within a wheel -- Faith as core and structure -- Silence fraught with meaning.